Oscar Nominations: Swimming Into Focus
Analyzing this year’s race.
Film 2017: The Best & Worst
The year’s wonders and blunders.
Summer Cinema Wrap
The highs and lows of a middling movie season
A Film Critic Is Born
A career 30 years in the making.
Queen City Flops
Stroker Ace and other terrible movies made in Charlotte.
March Madness: Monster Edition
Mad Monster Party returns for a sixth haunting.
The Oscar Nominations: La La Land of Plenty
Analyzing the arrival of this year’s contenders.
Film 2016: The Best & Worst
From A (Arrival) to Z (Zoolander No. 2).
Summer 2016 Movie Wrap
From Suicide Squad to Star Trek and beyond.
Film 2015: The Best & Worst
The cinema awakens.
Film 2014: The Best & Worst
Soaring with the year’s cinema.
Film 1984: A Look Back
The diversity of films that came out then — from The Karate Kid and Ghostbusters to The Terminator and Amadeus — made it a standout year. We celebrate those movies now, 30 years later.
The Best & Worst Films of 1984
Amadeus, The Terminator, Cannonball Run II, Rhinestone, and more
Film 2013: The Best & Worst
Inside the year’s cinema.
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