Welcome to the “Best/Favorite Films” blog. This is an ongoing project to list every movie I like by year. Every post has four sections:
Films listed in bold: If I were a professional film critic allowed to vote in “best films of all-time” polls such as Sight & Sound’s, these would be my top candidates for that honor. Consider these the five-star films.
Films listed in italics: These are also huge favorites of mine, including the slightly-less-than-ideal best of the year and “light entertainments” that are nevertheless true classics for me. I would award these movies 4 stars out of 5.
Films listed in regular type: These are films I like and find well worth revisiting. They range from the enjoyable to the flawed-but-worthy and to the films that just fall a little short of italicized status.
Still need to see: Movies that look very promising/intriguing, but that I still need to watch.
Not listed are the many movies that I would give two stars (adequate, not bad films that simply don’t grab me enough to want to see again), 1 star (the endless amount of substandard, unimaginative dreck and even worse) or zero stars (absolute bottom of the barrel, reprehensible garbage.)
Why the phrase “best/favorite”? Because I acknowledge that these are lists of films of my choosing – in which I certainly am making an attempt to create an objective grouping of what truly are the “best” films, but at the same time knowing that these are my personal opinions; my subjective “faves.”
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Decades: 2010s 2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s 1950s 1940s
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