Tyler finishes his Year of Many Movies with an exhaustive, subjective, heartfelt Top 50 Movies of the Year.
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2018 Yearbook: Tyler’s Top Film Moments
Tyler begins to recap his mammoth year in movies with a list of scenes and performances that stood out among the throng.
‘ROMA,’ Alfonso Cuaron’s Empathic Masterpiece
Though nearly colossally screwing up its release, Netflix has a bonafide Best Picture favorite on its hands with Alfonso Cuaron’s ode to the most important figure of his youth.
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TIFF 2018 Recap: Beauty, Pathos, and Weirdness
Tyler recaps his experience at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
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2017 Yearbook: Tyler’s Top 25 Films
Tyler runs down his Best Performances, Missed 2016 Bests and, finally, the Best Films of 2017 in a recap of his massive movie watching year.
2017 Yearbook: Tyler’s Top 10 Songs
Tyler runs down the best Songs of the Year, featuring a heaping helping of insistent and ebullient hip-hop moments, from emergent artists cementing their place to entrenched superstars topping themselves over again.
2017 Yearbook: Tyler’s Top 25 Albums
In a year of social turmoil, the best albums of the year got angry, vulnerable, and fuzzy. Tyler breaks them down.
In ‘THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI,’ The Damage Is Permanent
Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell anchor Martin McDonagh’s latest ode to the human condition, playing damaged, grieving shells lashing out in search of redemption or vengeance, whichever comes first.
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Best Albums of 2017: 3rd Quarter
The Best Records of 2017’s 3rd Quarter featured surprises, reformations, explosive expansions, and iterative growth, sometimes all within the same record. It was a quarter of thinking about some of the most carefully curated bands and their intentions, while also marveling at the simplicity that comes from a lack of expectation.
Best Albums of 2017: 2nd Quarter
The 2nd Quarter’s Best Albums of 2017 evened out the year to a consistent rhythm of strong, if not revolutionary, albums from new and old artists alike. Oh, and a wallop from the Best Rapper Alive.