At long last, my favorite movies of 2019:
At long last, my favorite movies of 2019:
The Stevens = my version of the Academy Awards, where the only member of the Academy choosing the nominees and winners for each of this hallowed — and, often, hollow — institution’s official feature-length categories (plus two, sans one; Best Picture will be tomorrow) is…me.
There are two approaches to judging awards picks.
My favorite documentaries of 2019:
Now we’re getting meaty.
You may have noticed a lack of “worst of” awards in this here recap of 2019 in film thus far.
Before we get to my favorite genre movies of 2019, an important distinction:
A trio of caveats before we crown my favorite uses of music in 2019 movies, the subject of this chapter in our recap of the past year in film.
To continue my recap of 2019 in film, we move from yesterday’s Miscellaneous Honors to today’s subject: my favorite openings and closings of the year, replete with one-line descriptions of each:
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