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Brett McCracken 12/21/13 Brett McCracken 12/21/13

Best Film Moments of 2013

The following are 15 of the most memorable and compelling moments from the year in cinema, in no particular order

Brett McCracken 12/20/13 Brett McCracken 12/20/13

Best Films of 2013

Dislocation. When I consider the films that I loved the most in 2013, this is the word I think of. The theme of dislocation—uprootedness, geographical and emotional lostness, unstable notions of "home"'—was present in various forms in many films this year.

Brett McCracken 7/1/13 Brett McCracken 7/1/13

Best Films of the First Half

The following are the five films that I enjoyed most during the first half of 2013

Brett McCracken 4/20/13 Brett McCracken 4/20/13

To the Wonder

To the Wonder is about a way of seeing—both seeing the world around us, and seeing ourselves properly, something he embodies not just on screen but in his working process. It's no coincidence that it begins with the point of view of Marina and Neil's own cell phone camera (as they travel by train "to the Wonder"). It's the focusing of our attention via lenses on life: perceiving the beauty in the pretty and the ugly, the thrilling and the mundane, and seeing how it all points heavenward. Christ in all; "All things shining" (The Thin Red Line).

Brett McCracken 8/20/12 Brett McCracken 8/20/12

What We Know About Malick's To the Wonder

Typical for a Malick film, very little is known about To The Wonder, and until critics see it and write/tweet their first impressions of it after the world premiere in Venice on Sept. 2, very little will be known.

Brett McCracken 5/21/11 Brett McCracken 5/21/11

39 Facts About Terrence Malick

There is so little magic left in cinema, and so few figures characters who loom large enough to inspire the kind of bigger-than-life mythos formerly reserved for the likes of Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Kubrick. Terrence Malick is one of them.