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Favorite Film Spotlight: Favorite February First Time Watches

Favorite films

  • No Other Land
  • The Elephant Man
  • I'm Still Here
  • A Different Man

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  • Brooklyn

    ★★★★½

  • Paddington in Peru

    ★★★½

  • The Commitments

    ★★★★

  • Sing Street

    ★★★★★

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  • Lady Bird

    Lady Bird

    ★★★★★

    This movie is my new Boyhood

    I connected to Boyhood not through the plot (or lack thereof) and the characters. I was not a little boy who was in elementary school in 2002 and ended up going to college in 2013. I was a little girl a year out from elementary school in 2002, and I was going into my sophomore year of high school in 2013. But it felt like my life growing up. The music, the scenery, the clothes…

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    ★★★★★

    Finally got around to this. This is my first year voting for the Indie Spirits, and I knew when I got the screeners that I wanted to save this one for last. That was a very wise decision. How do you follow this film? Like, I can't think of anything I'd like to watch after this. Maybe Little Women? I'm seeing that again tomorrow. The only appropriate follow up to this, it seems, is just turning it back on and…

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  • Brooklyn

    Brooklyn

    ★★★★½

    God bless Saoirse Ronan for being literally perfect. I love this more and more each time and it’s because of her miracle of a performance. I’m beginning to think that she doesn’t have an Oscar yet because if they give her one they’ve got to give her all of them for every single performance she’s ever given, and it’d really be fair to make a higher level of awards for just her.

  • Paddington in Peru

    Paddington in Peru

    ★★★½

    Living up to such a tremendous film as Paddington 2 is difficult, and this doesn’t quite hit the mark. But it still feels very in line with the tone despite the shift in creative team and is very fun. Also I very much want to see where this goes next based on the post credits scene.

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  • Allen v. Farrow

    Allen v. Farrow

    ★★★★½

    I am once again wishing Woody Allen a very unpleasant die

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    ★★★★★

    One of the greatest biopics of all time, with one of the greatest performances of all time.