One of the great disadvantages of plying an amateur film critic trade is that the bevy of opportunities to see the best cinematic offerings of any given year–the major film festivals, the pile-up of fourth quarter press screenings designed to dazzle just in time for various associations’ awards–are denied me, a situation further compounded by living in the hinterlands, well away from the qualifying runs of films in the big cities. So when the critical community is rising up to breathlessly proclaim a movie year to be especially good, the sentiment can seem a little off to me. Sure, I … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2013 — An Introduction