“Though I may not have fully arrived at all of what the film has to say, I find myself looking at trees and the world overall a bit differently now.”

Raiff is an optimist at the end of the day, so it should be no surprise that when all is said and done, his thesis on a humanitarian level is: ”Maybe the kids will be alright.”

My biggest drawback of the series is its energy, or rather a lack thereof.

Never has the mockumentary subgenre felt so monumentally big on screen.

Sentimental Value is Trier’s grandest movie.

The movie’s individual themes and narrative are in their own separate way akin to almost all of Baker’s followups

I know I can look fondly at the spotlight being placed on this movie, as there is no other film this year more deserving of it.

And if I could use my imagination for a moment, I’d like to think time will leave this cycle a thing of the past.

It is a prime example of what I would classify as a hidden gem

The Apprentice doesn’t have added flair of the fantasy or thriller, but it does carry over the same unsettling atmosphere

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is the epitome of what I want out of contemporary films.

There are signs in Superstar that the Haynes may go on to expand upon that territory in the future.

I have a lot of love for what Linklater has done in looking at Goddard as an auteur.

I have a lot of love for what Linklater has done in looking at Lorenz Hart as an auteur and a genius in his own time.

Origin gains a soulful quality that can’t help but to just make you feel something. It might just even make you hope for something.

Sirât is one of my favorite movies of the year.

Villeneuve’s visually focused style of filmmaking begins with Polytechnique

It’s the glimmer of etherealness with Monster that tows it over the line as a beautiful triumph

All We Imagine as Light offered what was by far the most aesthetically insightful and thematically precise conclusion not just of the festival, but perhaps of the entire year

In the case of A Different Man, this film wouldn’t exist in the way that it does without Adam Pearson