William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...

A comic book origin story, a World War I epic and a 19th-century adaptation of an American classic were among the 10 films praised by the American Film Institute as the very best of 2019. “Joker,” ...

All 10 movies on my list certainly meet Scorsese’s definition of “cinema,” even if only three made the box office top 30 -- proof again that quality and popularity have little to do with each other. 1 ...