Happy (belated) New Year.
Any of you who check out this blog on a regular basis have probably noticed the lack of posting in it throughout the last quarter of 2011. My apologies for that. Circumstances beyond my control made it difficult, if not impossible, to make meaningful contributions to either of my blogs, but I’m resolved to return to regular postings in 2012.
Another year has come to a close, and that means I am at work on a special episode reflecting on the films released in the previous year, including a countdown of my picks of the best and worst pictures. I’ve been busy screening notable films from the past year that I missed during their theatrical run because they didn’t get released in this area, they were pulled from theaters too quickly, or I refused to see them in the theater (Smurfs, I’m looking at you).
Because I am so busy screening films and putting together the year end wrap up, this weekend (January 15th) will see a rerun of an earlier episode. The 2011 Year End Wrap Up is planned to air January 22nd, 2012. Remember that you can find previous year end wrap ups here.
In the meantime, here are some links to other end of 2011 retrospectives from other critics:
- Mark Kermode picks his favorites and least favorites of 2011.
- The Cinema Snob’s picks of the worst films of 2011.
- Roger Ebert’s picks of the best films of 2011.
- Richard Roeper’s picks of the best and worst of 2011.
- The A.V. Club’s picks of the best of 2011.
- Rotten Tomatoes list of the 100 best reviewed films of 2011.
- Todd McCarthy’s picks of the 30 best films of 2011.
- Peter Travers’ picks of the 10 best films of 2011.
- Kenneth Turan’s picks of the best films of 2011.
- The Huffington Post: 11 Great Films You May Have Missed
- Owen Gleiberman’s picks of the 10 best of 5 worst films of 2011.
- Lisa Schwartzbaum’s picks of the 10 best and 5 worst films of 2011.