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The Best Movies of 2022, According to the Year’s Rising Stars
Several exciting up-and-coming performers from 2022’s movie slate pick their favorites of the year.
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Top 10 Films of 2022
It’s been a tumultuous year for the movie industry, but a bunch of great movies came out in 2022 and we eagerly saw as many as we could. Here are the 10 we loved the most.
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Reappraising ‘The Family Stone’
I didn’t love Thomas Bezucha’s 2005 Christmas dramedy The Family Stone when I first saw it. But I’ve come to realize it’s actually one of the great Christmas movies.
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Christmas Movie Characters for Each Enneagram Type
9 characters from Christmas movie classics and the Enneagram type they best represent.
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What If ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Never Existed?
My love of movies, Christmas, and life itself would look very different without Frank Capra’s 1946 masterpiece.
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Sound Bites: ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’
Kevin Prchal’s ode to one of the finest holiday albums in Christmas movie history.
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Interview: Karolyn ‘Zuzu’ Grimes on Jimmy Stewart and ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’
12+1 questions about It’s A Wonderful Life, its unique memorabilia and most underappreciated character, her memories of Jimmy Stewart, and more!
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2022 Holiday Gift Guide
Some sweet gift ideas you can get for yourself or the movie lovers in your life.
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The World of Classic Noir in 5 Items
Objects that best represent the genre, along with a noir film I love that features each one in some way.
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7 Hard-Boiled Lessons from Noir Films Old and New
I take comfort in knowing that film noir—a genre that has existed for almost 100 years—has seen it all before. So here are few timeless, hard-won lessons and the noir films that illustrate them.
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Why I Love Noir: A Confession
You really wanna know why I like noir? All right, pull up a chair and gimme a light. I’ll tell you what I know.
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Interview: Peter Stormare on Swedish cuisine, film noir, and ‘Fargo’
12+1 questions about his experience shooting the neo-noir classic Fargo, Swedish cuisine, how to get eaten by CGI dinosaurs, what people often get wrong about him, and more.
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Top 10 Noir Movies
Here’s the skinny: We put a couple gumshoes on the case to track down all of film noir’s low-lifes, grifters, heels, and molls so we could assemble a lineup worthy of this amazing genre.
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Home Is Where the Monsters Are: The Strange Sanctuary of ‘Little Monsters’ and ‘Nightbreed’
Both films, introduced within the horror universe in 1989 and 1990, illustrate the benefits of discovering asylum in a realm occupied by monsters.
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The 7 Types of Horror Movie Watchers
Throughout my years of watching horror movies, I’ve seen many different ways that people interact with the genre. Here are the 7 most common.
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Interview: Designer Sam Smith talks horror and his Criterion cover of ‘House’
12+1 questions about the first time he saw House, his process designing the iconic Criterion Collection cover art, his take on the current state of horror movies, and more!
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It’s Time to Return to M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘The Village’
By all cinematic standards of today, The Village is not only masterfully conceived—it is among Shyamalan’s very best.
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Invincible Czars’ Gothic Halloween Playlist
We asked the Austin-based instrumental group to put together a playlist of tracks that tie in with their live soundtrack experience with screenings of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent vampire classic Nosferatu.
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Creature Comfort: Why Horror is the Coziest Genre
Many horror fans have found solace in films meant to sow fear. Why might that be? Let’s grab a dim flashlight, slowly open a creaky wooden door, and explore.
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What Makes High School Movies So Enduring?
Movies have captured these important years as well as any art form, offering plenty to connect with across generations.
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Interview: Author Melissa Maerz on high school movies, oral histories, and ‘Dazed and Confused’
12+1 questions with the author of Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused about why Dazed resonates across generations, high school movies, and more.