Double Features: Top 12 of 2022 (& 12 More)
The 12 best movies of 2022, each one paired with a cinematic classic.
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ONE-OFFS
Carson Cook
- Jan 30
Go Big or Go Home: The Best Films of 2022
The movies that made 2022 sing, according to Carson Cook.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 1, 2022
Rough Cut Cinema's 2022 Sight and Sound Ballots
Rough Cut's critics present their choices for the ten greatest movies ever made.
Rough Cut Staff
- Aug 3, 2022
Repertory Corner: August in L.A.
In Repertory Corner, we program a slate of screenings for August in Los Angeles.
Carson Cook
- May 28, 2022
The Films of Tom Cruise
As Top Gun: Maverick soars into theaters, a look back at the career of its enigmatic star.
Carson Cook
- May 16, 2022
Home Video Review: Eastern Promises on 4K UHD
Kino Lorber's new 4K transfer of David Cronenberg's film looks and sounds superb.
Carson Cook
- Mar 27, 2022
Home Video Review: Touch of Evil on 4K UHD
All three versions of Orson Welles' 1958 thriller hit 4K UHD for the first time, courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 9, 2022
50 Most Anticipated Films of 2022
Our 50 most anticipated films of 2022.
Carson Cook
- Oct 1, 2021
The French Connection at 50: William Friedkin and the Undermining of the Lawman
What to make of Popeye Doyle in 2021? The answer may be found in another Friedkin film.
Jonny Diaz
- Jun 7, 2021
The Cinema of Sondheim
A look back at the musical theatre and subsequent movie musical legend.
Rough Cut Staff
- Feb 28, 2021
The Acting Draft, Part 1
We draft the best performances of the last 5 years.
Jonny Diaz
- Feb 28, 2021
The Second Annual Rough Cut Awards
The Rough Cut Staff's picks for the best films of 2020.
Rough Cut Staff
- May 9, 2020
Interview: Writer-Director Sabrina Doyle (Lorelei)
Writer-director Sabrina Doyle discusses her Tribeca-bound feature debut, Lorelei.
Rough Cut Staff
- Apr 24, 2020
Boston Accents by Non-Bostonians: A Ranking
An ode to the out-of-towners who try to sound like the townies.
Carson Cook
- Apr 19, 2020
On Cinematic Comfort Food and Intellectual Pursuits
I had big plans to finally wrestle with the Dekalog. I've rewatched four Mission: Impossibles and two Spider-Mans instead.
Rough Cut Staff
- Apr 1, 2020
COVID-19 and the Theatrical Industry: An Accelerant, Not a World-Changer
COVID-19 won’t fundamentally remake the theatrical exhibition or the film industry – but only because that was already happening.
Rough Cut Staff
- Mar 22, 2020
'Just Watch' Movies: A Categorization
You know when someone asks you what movie they should watch, and you recommend one, and they say “oh, what’s that about?”
Rough Cut Staff
- Mar 11, 2020
How the Trump Administration Has Impacted Best Picture - And What That Means for 2020
It’s high time Hollywood accepts that film and politics have always walked hand-in-hand, and that's not going to change.
Rough Cut Staff
- Mar 3, 2020
Best of 2019: The First Annual Rough Cut Awards
As the dust settled on this past awards season, our team here at Rough Cut came together to crown our own favorites.
Zach D'Amico
- Feb 21, 2020
Sundance Wrap-Up: The Invisible Hand of Politics
How do we – how does film – acknowledge and even interact with the world around us without letting the moment subsume the stories we tell?
Carson Cook
- Feb 6, 2020
Want to Fix the Oscars’ Acting Categories? Look at the Screenplays.
Male/Female? Lead/Supporting? Why not Original/Pre-Existing?
sara
- Jan 21, 2020
They Call Him Oscar: An Elegy
A strange ritual:
Awards with a gold man.
As if men were gold.
Or worthy of it.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 20, 2020
The Canard of Objectivity: Why 'Quality over Diversity' Makes No Sense
It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3.
Jonny Diaz
- Jan 16, 2020
2019 Top 10: Empathy for the Devil
Jonny Diaz on why he watches sad movies.
Carson Cook
- Jan 15, 2020
The 10 Best Films of 2019 (Plus a Few More)
Carson Cook can't follow the instructions and lists far more than 10 films.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 14, 2020
2019 Top 10: How Movies Helped Me Connect
Zach D'Amico on the shared cinematic experience and the power of we.
Jonny Diaz
- Jan 13, 2020
The Top 20 Performers of 2019
The twenty performers who dominated the screen in multiple 2019 films.
Carson Cook
- Jan 9, 2020
The Best Things About 2019's Bad Movies
Even when a work is somehow less than the sum of its parts, those parts are still worth saluting.
sara
- Jan 9, 2020
Top 10 Movie Scen-quences of the 2019
Movies are a sequence of scenes that tell a story.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 8, 2020
The 50 Best Pieces of Movies in 2019: Pt. 2
The top 25 bits and pieces of 2019 movies.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 6, 2020
The 50 Best Pieces of Movies in 2019: Pt. 1
Zach D'Amico's favorite "pieces" of movies.
Jonny Diaz
- Jan 6, 2020
2019 At the Movies: Crossing the Class Divide
In 2019, long-simmering global tensions around income inequality and class anxieties boiled over onto cinema screens.
sara
- Jan 5, 2020
2019 At the Movies: A Celebration of Women
Women are still underrepresented in regards to awards, but that doesn't mean their presence wasn't felt across the filmic landscape.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 4, 2020
2019 At the Movies: Laying down the Grudge
2019 was the year of catharsis put to film.
Carson Cook
- Dec 24, 2019
A Disturbance in the Force: The Highs and Lows of the Star Wars Saga
A look back at the peaks and valleys of the world's most famous space opera.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 23, 2019
Make the Case: Technical Wizardry
The most underrated feats of audio and visual mastery we experienced this year.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 22, 2019
Matt Damon's Identity Crisis
Matt Damon's His obsession with the concept of self hasn’t waned over time, it’s merely metamorphosed.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 10, 2019
Rough Cut's Best Rewatches of 2019
What makes a movie worth returning to over and over?
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 8, 2019
Crossing the Line: Power Dynamics in Fall Films
In the long arc of time, history is written by the victors. But in the day-to-day lives of the rest of us? Lines are drawn by the powerful.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 7, 2019
From Victims to Villains: Reinvention in America
Second lives offer the chance to reset, to reinvent. The chance to find the successes that eluded us in our first go-round.
Carson Cook
- Dec 1, 2019
For Your (Re)Consideration: Casualties of War
A brutally unflinching look at the savagery that men can perpetrate when given the opportunity, but also a moving portrait of decency.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 30, 2019
Throwback Review: Private Life is a Sympathetic Portrait of a Lost Couple
A film that has a distinct sense of its characters’ selves, even when they do not.
Carson Cook
- Nov 28, 2019
The Films of Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective
To celebrate this week’s release of The Irishman, we take a look back at the films of Martin Scorsese, renowned auteur and fanboy troll.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 21, 2019
The World's End: Entering The Matrix with a Dose of Nostalgia
For Wright, the most potent form of The Matrix's complacency-inducing blue pill is nostalgia.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 16, 2019
Shot/Chaser: Returning to Hitchcock's Psycho
If you look beneath the surface, Waves and Psycho share a DNA making them uniquely thrilling and one-of-a-kind achievements in filmmaking.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 11, 2019
The Inaugural Rough Cut Draft Chat: Bankability
Is there such thing as a sure thing in Hollywood anymore? We've endeavored to find out.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 10, 2019
Make the Case: Acting
These are the 2019 performers who made us laugh, cry, and stand up and cheer, but who probably won't be making speeches come February.
sara
- Nov 6, 2019
Shot/Chaser: Revisiting Ingmar Bergman's Emotionally Raw Scenes from a Marriage
Scenes from a Marriage provides a uniquely raw look into the psyche of two individuals who have dedicated themselves to each other.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 3, 2019
Heists, Aliens, and A Little Bit of Love: The 20 Best Movies of the Decade
The 20 most powerful experiences we had in film this decade.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 3, 2019
First Cut: November Oscar Predictions
Our initial predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards.
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