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2<\/span>022 was a weird year for movies man.<\/p>\n

It was a year where the arse finally appeared to fall out of on-demand streaming services.\u00a0 Almost every major\u00a0platform felt the crunch from flat or shrinking subscriber bases.\u00a0 Netflix responded by taking their biggest film of the year – Glass Onion<\/em> – and screening it in cinemas for ONE WEEK ONLY before locking it in a vault until late December then dumping it onto their streaming service.\u00a0 A baffling move for a movie that looked like it could’ve made $500 million at the box office easy.<\/p>\n

Disney continued its weird trend of releasing animated movies in theatres and then tossing them on Disney+ almost immediately afterwards, a\u00a0move that did no favours to Turning Red<\/em> or Lightyear<\/em>.\u00a0 In an information age where people consume movie trailers, news and content in historically high quantities they also somehow produced a $180 million movie called\u00a0Strange World\u00a0<\/em>which tanked at the box office because no one had heard of it or knew it was out.<\/p>\n

Warner made a\u00a0Bat Girl<\/em> movie and then destroyed any trace of it instead of releasing it because in the weird world of Hollywood accounting, this is somehow a more profitable move.<\/p>\n

Depending on which version you watched, Pinocchio<\/em> could be one of the best (Del Toro’s) or worst (Disney’s) movies you see in 2022.<\/p>\n

No one watches Steven Spielberg films anymore.\u00a0 They just come and go at the box office every December.<\/p>\n

Someone has developed a technology that allows directors to make horror films twice as fast as before.\u00a0\u00a0Scream<\/em> came out in January and if you liked it, you can watch another one next March.\u00a0 Ti West made\u00a0X\u00a0<\/em>in March, the prequel\u00a0Pearl<\/em> in September and the sequel\u00a0MaXXXine<\/em> is out next March.<\/p>\n

I’m told that some of the best films of the year are\u00a0Another Year,\u00a0<\/em>EO, Decision to Leave<\/em> and\u00a0Til<\/em>\u00a0and none of them are in my top ten because in Australia these movies don’t come out until four months after everyone else has finished watching and talking about them.<\/p>\n

The best film of the year is from India.<\/p>\n

2022 was a weird year for movies man.<\/p>\n

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Everything Everywhere All At Once<\/h2>\n

Directors:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The Daniels
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The Daniels
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, even though you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

The Daniels first had my attention with\u00a0Swiss Army Man<\/em>, the 2016 Daniel Radcliffe film that was colloquially referred to online as the “zombie, boner, farting corpse movie”.\u00a0 Even then, the Daniels showed that amongst the surreal and deeply silly minutiae of their film, there was an earnest and emotional core that celebrated friendship and human connections.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Everything Everywhere<\/em>, Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn, an exhausted and overwhelmed migrant mother who runs a laundromat.\u00a0 While she stresses over business being audited by the IRS, her husband Weyland plans to serve her divorce papers and her daughter Joy just wants a minute of her time to introduce her to her girlfriend Becky.\u00a0 Evelyn’s world is turned upside down when an Alpha-Weyland from another dimension visits her and tells Evelyn she alone holds the power to stop the multiverse from collapsing upon itself (threatened by an interdimensional bagel).<\/p>\n

Multiverse storylines are standard fare at the movies these days but few films push the limits of the concept as the Daniels do.\u00a0 Sentient rocks at the edge of the multiverse, literal sausage fingers, Matrix<\/em> style kung fu sequences involving butt plugs, a multiverse variant of\u00a0Ratatouille<\/em> involving a feral raccoon,\u00a0you name it – it’s all here.<\/p>\n

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once<\/em> is a gleefully absurd and heartfelt film.\u00a0 It is anchored by an incredible central performance from Michelle Yeoh in the role of a lifetime and it is vividly brought to life with the imagination of the script, the incredible editing and fabulous special effects.<\/p>\n

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio<\/h2>\n

Directors:<\/strong>\u00a0 Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, John Turturro, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile you may have eternal life, your loved ones, they do not.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

After having his time in the sun receiving major accolades for\u00a0The Shape of Water<\/em>, Guillermo del Toro is back at it with his favourite cinematic subject matter – young kids sticking it to Nazis in twisted adult fairy tales.\u00a0 If you loved this stuff before in\u00a0The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth<\/em> and\u00a0Hellboy<\/em>, guess what it still absolutely rules with\u00a0Pinocchio<\/em>, an absolutely wild stop motion adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s 19th century novel.<\/p>\n

In del Toro’s version of Pinocchio<\/em>, Geppetto creates the eponymous wooden puppet as a surrogate of his son Carlo who is killed in an aerial raid during World War 1.\u00a0 Unlike the animated Disney adaption of\u00a0Pinocchio<\/em>, Geppetto here is a ruinous shell of a man, driven to alcoholism as he struggles to process his grief for the loss of Carlo.\u00a0 This leads Pinocchio to be susceptible to nefarious influences such as the cruel and manipulative carnie Count Volpe and also (wait for it) no less than the Italian Royal Army who conscript Pinocchio so he can be sent to fight the Allies in World War 2.<\/p>\n

Del Toro’s adaption of Pinocchio<\/em> is darkly imaginative and at times quite provocative with its religious imagery and its unblinking portrayal of children being swept up in the throes of fascism.<\/p>\n

As ever though, his work also has a deeply affecting humanist message at its heart and I defy anyone to watch this film and not get investe in the fortunes of not just Pinocchio and Geppetto, but their entourage including Sebastian J Cricket and Spazzaturra.\u00a0 The film has a melancholic and philosophical outlook on Pinocchio’s cursed existence.\u00a0 He aspires to be a real boy but his very nature and immortality means he will outlive all who he loves.<\/p>\n

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Avatar: The Way of the Water<\/h2>\n

Director:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0James Cameron
\nWriters:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>James Cameron, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver<\/p>\n

\u201cI know one thing: wherever we go, this family… is our fortress.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

When the credits rolled on\u00a0Avatar: The Way of the Water<\/em>, it took me a while to process\u00a0exactly what I had seen.<\/p>\n

In some ways, James Cameron is still the same master director he ever was.\u00a0 You don’t get to make the highest grossing film of all time\u00a0twice!<\/em> without knowing a thing or two about storytelling and how to connect with your audience.\u00a0\u00a0In terms of the big picture,\u00a0Avatar<\/em> is a mesmerising science fiction tale.\u00a0 The visual effects in this film are absolutely jaw-dropping and there were times when I was so taken with what was unfolding I was reminded of the feeling when I saw the dinosaurs for the first time in\u00a0Jurassic Park<\/em>.\u00a0 The sequences at the\u00a0Metkayina water village blew my mind.<\/p>\n

What unfolds is a fast-moving, solidly crafted action adventure blockbuster that has a surprisingly simple environmental message at its centre.\u00a0 I think one could reasonably extrapolate allusions to the Iraq War and the displacement of Indigenous people in the real world but whats on offer is mostly surface level social commentary that is largely in service of moving the story along to the next chapter in this sprawling sci-fi series.<\/p>\n

Cameron and Jaffa’s screenplay leans heavily into contemporary language (the ‘bro’ count in this movie is very high) and also dabbles earnestly in wellness mumbo jumbo (“I see you, I hear you”).\u00a0 At times I found it refreshing to hear a modern day blockbuster where the characters speak so sincerely, as if the last fifteen years of snarky, ironic, self-aware Joss Whedonisms hadn’t crept into every Hollywood production.\u00a0 On the other hand, I swear to God we were moments away from Jake Sully telling his family to live, laugh, love.<\/p>\n

Avatar\u00a0<\/em>is a technical marvel, a solid B+ action movie and very rough around the edges with everything else.\u00a0 And I think thats what I like about it.\u00a0 It doesn’t feel manufactured by committee.\u00a0 It’s very much James Cameron’s vision, warts and all.\u00a0 There’s so many weird little details in this film I don’t understand.\u00a0 Jemaine Clement is in this thing but he has to pretend to be American.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 But overall I decided I liked it for what it was.\u00a0 It’s not\u00a0Gone With the Wind<\/em> but its good popcorn fun.<\/p>\n

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X<\/h2>\n

Director:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ti West
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ti West
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi<\/p>\n

\u201cMust be one goddamn fucked up horror picture.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

If you’re a fan of horror films I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know but we’re eating good nowadays.\u00a0 By rights the genre should be out of steam.\u00a0 There are so many horror movies made every year.\u00a0 Every idea should be done to death.\u00a0 This should all be done and dusted.<\/p>\n

And yet every year some absolute freak, some total sicko will come up with a great new film thats creative, showcases a wonderful crop of talented young actors and has some messed up gore and twisted imagery that runs for 100 minutes.<\/p>\n

X<\/em> is a film about a group of young filmmakers who visit a remote farmstead in rural Texas to shoot a porno.\u00a0 Only the elderly couple who own the place aren’t exactly who they seem.\u00a0 Things get sexy.\u00a0 Then they go bad.\u00a0 Then they go really<\/em> bad.<\/p>\n

Ti West is clearly a man who knows his craft when it comes to making horror flicks.\u00a0 West shows a great awareness of common horror tropes and I think does a great job of luring in the viewer and subverting their expectations.\u00a0 In Pearl, we have the makings of a modern day horror icon.\u00a0 For fans of the genre, X<\/em> is a must.<\/p>\n

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Top Gun Maverick<\/h2>\n

Director:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Joseph Kosinski
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Peter Craig
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0 Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end is inevitable, Maverick. Your kind is headed for extinction.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n

\u201c<\/em>Maybe so, sir. But not today.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

Top Gun Maverick<\/em> is a film that simultaneously feels like something from a couple of decades ago – a proper big ticket action movie with a bona fide movie star – and something from the future with the incredible sequences that involve Tom Cruise piloting a fighter jet through a canyon where its genuinely unclear what it real and what is fx generated.<\/p>\n

Conceptually\u00a0Top Gun Maverick<\/em> is a simple and straightforward sequel to the classic Tony Scott original.\u00a0 It’s the execution that elevates the film above the litany of other tired sequels that get trotted out year after year.\u00a0 It feels like a film that understands what made the original work so well, is reverential without being formulaic, and delivers a new chapter that feels exhilarating and fresh thanks to the exceptional, tightly constructed fighter jet sequences.\u00a0 The original\u00a0Top Gun<\/em> casts a long shadow but improbably, I think many would agree that\u00a0Maverick<\/em> matches or even surpasses it.<\/p>\n

Top Gun Maverick<\/em> feels like it takes on extra significance during a tumultuous period for the film industry where we mull over the death of big-screen experiences at the cinema vs the convenience of streaming at home and the end of the era of big movie stars carrying the fortunes of a film at the box office.\u00a0 In this respect, Tom Cruise can feel like a one man last stand.\u00a0 Cruise personally insisted that the film ride out the pandemic and be kept on ice until it could be released to packed multiplexes.\u00a0 It’s a film you won’t see on streaming services for a long, long time and it unquestionably benefits from being experienced at the biggest screen possible.\u00a0 The box office results would appear to vindicate Cruise but it remains to be seen if other studios will follow suit.<\/p>\n

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Prey<\/h2>\n

Director:<\/strong>\u00a0 Dan Trachtenberg
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Patrick Aison, Dan Trachtenberg
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it bleeds, we can kill it.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

At some point a numbness had washed over me with the glut of unremarkable and totally forgettable sequels that were made to Eighties classics like\u00a0Predator, Alien, Terminator\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Die Hard<\/em>.\u00a0 I watched\u00a0Terminator 3<\/em> and\u00a0Alien vs Predator<\/em>.\u00a0 I think I made it up to the fourth\u00a0Die Hard<\/em>.\u00a0 But after that I stopped watching.\u00a0 I couldn’t even tell you know number they’re up to.<\/p>\n

So it was with a certain degree of trepidation that I fired up\u00a0Prey<\/em> when I noticed the crazy amount of positive word-of-mouth this film was receiving from fans.\u00a0 I’m glad I took the plunge.\u00a0\u00a0Prey<\/em> takes the\u00a0Predator<\/em> series 300 years into the past and centres the film on a tense game of survival between the Predator and a small group of Comanche warriors.\u00a0 The result is the best\u00a0Predator<\/em> film since the original and arguably its the film that feels most in common with the original’s memorable third act.<\/p>\n

Best of all, the success of\u00a0Prey<\/em> has me optimistic once again for the future of the series.\u00a0 If this, the fifth\u00a0Predator<\/em> movie, can be decent, why couldn’t we have more in the future?\u00a0 The idea also feels like it has a lot of mileage in it.\u00a0 How about a Predator that battles an ancient Egyptian or a Samurai in feudal Japan?<\/p>\n

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Nope<\/h2>\n

Director:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Jordan Peele
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Jordan Peele
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yuen<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the moment pictures could move, we had skin in the game.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

Jordan Peele, man.\u00a0 What a steady and reliable hand he is.\u00a0 Even after\u00a0Get Out<\/em> and\u00a0Us<\/em>, he feels like he has plenty of fresh ideas in the tank.\u00a0 I think thats the best thing about\u00a0Nope<\/em>, a strange and mesmerising sci-fi western set in California, is that it has an enjoyable air of mystique about itself.\u00a0 It doesn’t feel for a second like he’s re-treading the ground from his earlier films.\u00a0\u00a0Nope<\/em> isn’t even a horror film.\u00a0 It has a brand of weirdness all of its own.<\/p>\n

The film is also a fabulous showcase not just for Daniel Kaluuya (who starred in\u00a0Get Out<\/em>) but sorely under-utilised talents Keke Palmer and Steven Yuen.\u00a0 It’s a film brimming with interesting ideas about the history of cinema, racial representation in cinema, capitalism and exploitation.\u00a0\u00a0Nope<\/em> wasn’t quite the cultural force that\u00a0Get Out<\/em> and\u00a0Us<\/em> were but I think Peele deserves plenty of plaudits for his ambitious and colourful brand of storytelling.<\/p>\n

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Barbarian<\/h2>\n

Director:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Zach Cregger
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Zach Cregger
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgard<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is it always the girls who get their hearts ripped out in these things?\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

The other properly great horror film of 2022.<\/p>\n

Barbarian<\/em> is so good.\u00a0 I knew within minutes I would love it.\u00a0 The film opens with a cleverly constructed, super tense first act where a young woman Tess arrives at her Air BNB only to discover there is another tenant there, seeming double booked by accident.\u00a0 It’s a dark and strange neighbourhood and its raining outside.\u00a0 Should she trust this stranger?\u00a0 Should she enter the house?\u00a0 I absolutely loved how the film plays on our expectations here.<\/p>\n

After this tightly constructed set up,\u00a0Barbarian<\/em> then opens up in a whole new direction and goes completely off the rails in the most marvellous way that I don’t want to spoil.\u00a0 This is definitely a film best enjoyed going in spoiler-free.\u00a0 It’s the sort of entertaining shift in direction that even mentioning the rest of the cast feels a bit like a spoiler.<\/p>\n

In a general sense just know that\u00a0Barbarian<\/em> is one of the unabashedly fun horror films I’ve seen in years.\u00a0 It’s scary, it’s funny, it’s weird as hell.<\/p>\n

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery<\/h2>\n

Director:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Rian Johnson
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0 Rian Johnson
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monae, Dave Bautista, Kate Hudson<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a dangerous thing to mistake speaking without thought for speaking the truth.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

Glass Onion<\/em>, first and foremost, is a fabulous murder mystery, just as\u00a0Knives Out<\/em> before it, made in the style of an Agatha Christie classic.\u00a0 You have an ensemble cast of big names playing a rogues gallery of misfits.\u00a0 Everyone has a motive for the murder.\u00a0 Solving the crime is a brilliant but quirky detective who solves the unsolvable by untangling the human psychology that lead to the murder.<\/p>\n

In just two films, Daniel Craig has made a huge impression with his incredible wardrobe and outrageous Southern drawl as mastermind Benoit Blanc.\u00a0 Craig made five Bond films spanning fifteen years and yet it feels like his second act as Blanc might actually be the role he is more fondly remembered for.\u00a0 It certainly seems like its the role where he’s having more fun.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0Avatar<\/em>‘s screenplay is notable for reading exactly like a middle aged man who is never online wrote it in 2012,\u00a0Glass Onion<\/em> is equally noteworthy for its language written by a person who is\u00a0extremely online<\/em> and specifically\u00a0extremely online on Twitter<\/em>.\u00a0 How else to explain not only the contemporary references scattered throughout the script but also the film’s most significant feat of correctly identifying note-for-note, the dire political views and the “Emperor Has No Clothes” stupidity of one of the world’s most notorious billionaires.<\/p>\n

Blanc’s evisceration of a tech billionaire who, despite all evidence to the contrary, is continuously lauded as brilliant by his peers is a cathartic ending to not just the film but current events that dominated the global landscape in 2022.\u00a0 It’s incredible that, in a screenplay written two years ago<\/em>, the Musk analogue in Glass Onion<\/em> destroys a famous cultural icon through his own hubris and stupidity which in turn obliterates the value of his company.<\/p>\n

Glass Onion<\/em> is great, light-hearted fun.\u00a0 At the risk of sounding like a broken record (I know, its too late), it’s the sort of film that got made far more regularly in the traditional Hollywood ecosystem before the pandemic, streaming services and the monolithic might of Disney + Marvel turned everything into what it is now.<\/p>\n

I think we’d all be happy if Johnson and Craig pumped out a new one of these every two or three years.\u00a0 Just let the next one have a proper run at the box office so we can all have a laugh together in big, sold out screenings please Netflix.<\/p>\n

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RRR<\/h2>\n

Film of the Year<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Director:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0S.S Rajamouli
\nWriters:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0S.S Rajamouli
\nCast:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0N.T Rama Rao Jr, Ram Charan Teja, Alia Bhatt, Olivia Morris, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody<\/p>\n

\u201cYour friendship is more valuable than this life, brother. I’ll die with pride.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

This is it.\u00a0 The ultimate Dudes Rock movie.<\/p>\n

RRR<\/em> is my favourite film of the year.\u00a0 I didn’t respond as viscerally to anything else I saw.\u00a0 I laughed, I cried, I rewound the Naacho Naacho song a dozen times and watched it over and over.\u00a0 It is an absolute titan of a film and the long awaited mainstream Western breakthrough of a film from India (note:\u00a0RRR<\/em> is Tollywood though, not Bollywood).<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated,\u00a0RRR<\/em> is a re-imagining of the lives of two Indian revolutionaries – Rama Raju and Bheem – who fought against the British.\u00a0 In S.S Rajamouli’s vision, the two become friends and unite as a force to battle the British Raj.\u00a0 The film is named RRR<\/em> as it takes the initials of the director and two lead actors who are amongst the high profile movie personalities in India.<\/p>\n

RRR<\/i> must be the fastest moving three hour film of all time.\u00a0 It explodes out of the gates with its introduction of the two leads.\u00a0 Bheem fights a tiger with his bare hands and Rama fights one thousand men single-handedly.\u00a0 The film’s spectacle only builds from there.<\/p>\n

RRR<\/em> doesn’t feel fair.\u00a0 There are scenes that would be a worthy climax to a traditional Hollywood action movie and then Rajamouli just outdoes himself a dozen times over in a way that feels effortless.\u00a0 Better still, not only does RRR<\/em> have countless thrills, its elevated to greatness thanks to the charming performances from Ram Charan and N.T Rama Rao who have a marvellous chemistry together and are magnetic screen presences.\u00a0 This is like getting a buddy movie with Arnie and Stallone as leads when they were at the peak of their powers (and they did song and dance numbers too).<\/p>\n

There aren’t enough superlatives to praise\u00a0RRR<\/em> with.\u00a0 I talked about this movie incessantly to anyone who would listen all year.\u00a0 It’s probably the greatest movie of all time.\u00a0 I mean, look, maybe it isn’t.\u00a0 But also, maybe it is.<\/p>\n

Archives<\/h2>\n

Top Ten Films of 2021<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Film of the Year – The Father<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2020<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>Film of the Year\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Invisible Man<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2019<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>Film of the Year\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Parasite<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2018<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0BlackKklansman<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2017<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0Get Out<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2016<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0<\/strong>Film of the Year\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hunt For The Wilder People<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2015<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0| \u00a0Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0Mad Max Fury Road<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Fifty Films of 2014<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| \u00a0Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0Grand Budapest Hotel<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2013<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| \u00a0Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0Gravity<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2012<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0The Descendants<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2011<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0 Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0True Grit<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2010<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0| Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0The Social Network<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Top Ten Films of 2009<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0| Film of the Year \u2013\u00a0In The Loop<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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