Skip to content

FictionMachine

Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.

  • About
  • Essays Index
  • Features Index
  • Masterpiece
  • TV Reviews
  • Shorts Index
  • External Reviews
  • Lists

Category: year’s best

list, year's bestLeave a comment

10 great films from 2022

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 Grant Watson

It is that time again for me to select 10 films that I particularly enjoyed from the past year. Calling such a list a “year’s best” always strikes me as disingenuous and unhelpful. For one thing, while I am fairly … Continue reading 10 great films from 2022

list, year's bestLeave a comment

10 great movies from 2021

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Grant Watson

Year’s best lists always fill me with some trepidation, simply because they seem such an impossible thing to achieve. That’s why I stopped even trying to claim my own annual list was any sort of representative summary. Instead, this is … Continue reading 10 great movies from 2021

opinion, year's bestLeave a comment

10 Great Movie Posters from 2021

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 Grant Watson

I have always adored movie poster design, and like to appreciate the best examples when I see them. In this 21st century age of badly Photoshopped heads I think we need to praise good poster art more than ever. Here … Continue reading 10 Great Movie Posters from 2021

opinion, year's best1 Comment

10 great movie posters from 2020

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 Grant Watson

Poster art is one of the most important elements in marketing a movie, as it is often the first thing an audience will ever see about the film. It needs to be eye-catching, attractive, stimulating, and most importantly it must … Continue reading 10 great movie posters from 2020

list, year's bestLeave a comment

10 great films from 2020

January 3, 2021January 3, 2021 Grant Watson

2020 has been a weird year for cinema, thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic that shut down most cinemas through the year, saw film festivals either shut down entirely or shift online, and more than a few films intended for … Continue reading 10 great films from 2020

year's bestLeave a comment

The Best Films of 2018

January 11, 2019May 18, 2020 Grant Watson

2018 was a pretty great year for feature films. I remember saying the same thing about 2017, and it’s true: it really seems to me that global cinema is going through something of a golden age. Personally I put much … Continue reading The Best Films of 2018

year's bestLeave a comment

The Best Films of 2017

January 1, 2018May 25, 2020 Grant Watson

With 2017 having just passed into history, it strikes me as a particularly good year for cinema. Putting together a list of the year’s 10 best narrative features is usually a fairly easy task for me, with a few obvious … Continue reading The Best Films of 2017

Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • FictionMachine
    • Join 305 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • FictionMachine
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...