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2020/2021 Movie List

  My movie-watching felt a little different this year. For the first time in probably 40 years I didn’t go to a single movie in the theater. I didn’t end up watching any fewer movies, in fact I watched quite a few more than the last couple years, in part because one of my pandemic routines was watching part of a movie almost every morning while running on a treadmill. Not quite the same as the big screen experience, but not a bad way to motivate myself to get up and run every day. Since most of the movies I watched this year were on Amazon or Netflix, there aren’t a whole lot of movies on the list that I didn’t like. If I started something that sucked, say Lovebirds, or Army of the Dead, then I just stopped and moved on to a better one. Without the big screen I’d say there weren’t as many highs, the movies that I loved that just blew me away, but there was at least something I enjoyed about every movie on the list. Usually I take great pleasure in writing about the worst movie I s...

2019/2020 Movie List

Well, we’ve arrived at what would normally be finals week for the strangest school year of my teaching career. Even though nothing else feels normal, I’m still putting out my annual list ranking all of the movies I’ve watched since the end of last school year. Among the many things that I’ve missed during this quarantine is being able to go see a film in the theater. At least there will be a new Christopher Nolan movie waiting as soon as the theaters do open. Despite having three streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney Plus), I feel like I’m running out of things to watch, so as always, please send recommendations my way if you see something good that isn’t on this year’s list. This year I added an also recommended that is in some way connected at the end of each movie capsule for those of you that also need something else to watch. And lastly, don’t forget that this isn’t necessarily my ranking of how good the movies are, just which ones I enjoyed the most. I know that ...