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In the year 2000 …
Ruminations on that New York Times list, and my own hastily assembled ballot of the 10 best movies of the 21st century.
Jun 27
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Andrew E. Johnson
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May 2025
Earning it
On Memorial Day - or any other - film #38 in the series - ‘Saving Private Ryan’ - examines the debt owed to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
May 26
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Andrew E. Johnson
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Cops and robbers
#37 in the Film 101 series is 'GoodFellas' - the mobbiest mob film that there is. It's a brilliant work that exposes the utter fraudulence at the heart…
May 10
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Andrew E. Johnson
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April 2025
‘Well, to tell you the truth, I lied a little’
#36 in the Film 101 series is ‘Chinatown’, a film about a mystery and how to process the truth behind that mystery.
Apr 18
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Andrew E. Johnson
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March 2025
The prisoner
#35 in the series is ‘Raging Bull', a film that asks what the rest of us are supposed to do with the likes of Jake LaMotta.
Mar 24
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Andrew E. Johnson
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Oscar history, American history
A reconsideration of the importance of the Academy Awards and what lessons we should take from this annual tradition.
Mar 7
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Andrew E. Johnson
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Pre-reads for the 97th Academy Awards
The Oscars are this Sunday night (tonight, as I am writing this), which, for a cinephile, means all of a sudden, everyone else wants to talk about the…
Mar 2
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Andrew E. Johnson
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January 2025
I Alone Can Fix It: The Franchise
How John Rambo encapsulates the bleak, dimwitted political movement now in power.
Jan 29
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Andrew E. Johnson
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An unserious man
#34 in our series is ‘North by Northwest’ - a film that is both peak Alfred Hitchcock and a self-parody of one of the greatest directors of all time…
Jan 21
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Andrew E. Johnson
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Cowardly Lions
A good month at the movie theater still resulted in existential dread. As it turns out, what's plaguing Disney - and Hollywood at large - is the same as…
Jan 7
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Andrew E. Johnson
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December 2024
A meeting that sums up a moment
A scene in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist gets the roiling political moment we live in better than any other in a 2024 film.
Dec 17, 2024
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Andrew E. Johnson
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It’s Kieran Culkin’s world, if he wants it to be
If nothing else, A Real Pain shows that Kieran Culkin can be a big star in middle age too.
Dec 12, 2024
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Andrew E. Johnson
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