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Issue 103: Best of 2021

January 2022

We Don’t Get a Lot of Things to Really Care About

Teresa Horosko·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
My partner died unexpectedly in June, and now, whenever I go to the movie theater, I carry his driver’s license so that he can watch, too. In life, we were connected through our love of film. In his death, I’m not ready to give that up. 
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To Where You Once Belonged

Frank Falisi·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
Are you humming the four bars of choonka-CHOONKAs that form the first measures of “Get Back” right now? It’s always in the air. It’s always waiting to be remembered.
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House of Gucci (2021): Not Ethical, But Fair

Kellie Herson·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
Ridley Scott's House of Gucci sits in a frustrating liminal space, always both too much and not enough, preposterous in its way, but not as preposterous as it should be.
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Episode #8: The Power of the Dog (2021)

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
Issue 103: Best of 2021Podcast
This month on the show, we’re diving deep into Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog with film critic and Quorum (Film Quarterly) editor Girish Shambu.
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Riders of Justice: Tidings of Trauma and Joy

Mel Killingsworth·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
The more I see Riders of Justice, the more I understand how this oddball philosophical comedy served as a perfect balm for my weird, terrible year.
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Head-On Collision

Calvin McMillin·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
Drive My Car suggests that art itself is a vehicle for both communication and self-exploration. It can communicate what cannot be said out loud, if we are willing to listen, and can also be the vessel through which we better understand who we are.
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All Eyes On Me

Joel Mayward·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
Whatever Bo Burnham’s Inside is—a stand-up routine, a television special, a piece of musical theater, a music album, a documentary, a cinematic selfie, a confession—I think it’s cinema.
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A View from the Other Valley

Tom Cendejas·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
Licorice Pizza offered me more of the joys of cinema than anything has in years, but I regret its perpetuation of an erasure ironically similar to that practiced in the era Anderson satirizes.
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The Artifact 

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
The magic trick of Joanna Hogg’s film is not so much that The Souvenir Part II is funnier or stranger or better than its predecessor: it’s that Part II redefines both films as another form of memoir entirely.
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West Side Story (2021) | art by Tom Ralston

It’s Almost Like Praying

Lindsey Romain·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a a true musical, with brass-cracking orchestration; colors so anodyne they whisper, so blaring they shout; voices that soar and temporize and stay. Within seconds, it necessitates its own existence.
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BW/DR Staff Picks: The Best of 2021

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
The very best films and first watches in 2021 from the BW/DR editorial staff.
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Holy the Firm: Eternity and Forgiveness in Midnight Mass

Danielle Purdy·
Issue 103: Best of 2021
The great literary twist of Midnight Mass is that, after all that, their salvation is also their sin, and it is entirely earthly, entirely finite.
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