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As per usual, I was cramming in as many movies as I could so I had a chance to actually create a top ten that is accurate and I’m pretty proud of. That being said this is totally relative to each individual, but hopefully it’ll give you a place to start when you’re looking for some fantastic films to spend your precious time watching. I’ve got comedy, action, supernatural fun and even a frightening, energy barfing behemoth; so whatever your mood or taste, there’s something here for you.
In 2022 it felt like moviegoing came (almost) all the way back (for the seemingly dwindling number of people who were willing to go into the theaters). As the year winds to a close, we’re sharing lists of our favorite films we’ve seen (so far).
As the year winds to a close, we’re sharing lists of our favorite films we’ve seen (so far).
The holidays are always a crowded time at the multiplex. This year brings a slate of movies begging for your attention, including three biopics of great men vying for your attentions.
It’s by no means A Christmas Carol, but in the grand tradition of holiday movies featuring spiritual visitations, Andrew Haigh works through familiar queer traumas in All of Us Strangers, his gorgeously realized vibey ghost story that arrives in wide release just in time for the holidays.
The holiday film with the most local relevance is almost certainly The Boys in the Boat. It tells the inspirational true story of the UW eight man crew team that improbably dominated better funded collegiate competition, made it to the 1936 Olympics, and showed Hitler the power of good old fashioned American determination.
The holidays are always a crowded time at the multiplex. This year brings a slate of movies begging for your attention, two of which are musicals even though their trailers try to keep that fact under wraps. Brief reviews of The Color Purple and Wonka below.
This afternoon, the Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) announced the creation of a new award to specifically honor the outstanding work of a person with local ties to the Pacific Northwest. Named for the late John Hartl, the Seattle Times film critic whose wrote film criticism and features for the paper for decades, the Pacific Northwest Spotlight award will be presented annually by the SFCS board to acknowledge an exceptional body of work, rather than a single film or performance, that represents the region.
In a relentlessly inventive take on the Frankenstein myth, a sexually-insatiable experiment stumbles out from a Goldbergian laboratory into a vibrant Ozlike world. Based on Alasdair Gray’s illustrated novel, Yorgos Lanthimos tells a coming-of-age story unlike any other, set amid some of the richest and most dazzling production design captured on film this year. With tremendous and daring performances across the stellar cast, Poor Things earns a must-see spot for holiday season moviegoers and well-deserved recognition on year-end lists and award nominations.
Frederick Wiseman’s newest documentary runs for exactly four hours, probably about the amount of time you’d spend enjoying a dinner service at Le Bois sans Feuilles, the three Michelin starred restaurant run by the Troisgros family at their inn in the French countryside in Ouches. While the price of admission for the film is substantially less than even the a la carte menu at the celebrated restaurant, the intricately observed documentary is nevertheless a sumptuous immersion in the highest levels of new French cuisine.
