As it turned out, 2023 was a pretty good year for movies. (Insert Larry David “pret-tay, pret-tay, pret-tay good” GIF here.) So good, in fact, that we had a difficult time choosing just ten favorites, ...

Considering 2023 was a year that saw some real lows for the movie industry – specifically the near-complete shutdown of Hollywood for months due to the writers and actors strikes – it also had some ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

There’s nothing like watching a movie with an audience — and, as I realized a few months ago, there’s nothing like watching an audience watch a movie. It was in October during the 61st New York Film ...

The story of horror movies in 2023 is one of extreme ends, with the most out-there experiments flourishing while more standard genre fare fell flat. There was no terrifying instant classic destined to ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

It was a terrific year for film, whether art house or mainstream, even if the main subject the movies wrestled with was deeply pessimistic. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis I had ...

Ah, horror, our most beautiful, freaky, and misunderstood genre. IGN is full of horror nerds that love and celebrate it every chance we get, and since the Oscars seem to have so much trouble giving ...

No year-end best-movie list is definitive, because no year of moviegoing experience can be reduced to bullet points—nor should it be. Particularly now, when we can watch so many new movies without ...