It
has been awhile, and at the end of the holiday season no less! Gone with the festivities,
the days off, and the indigestion, but at the very least, there was plenty of
time to catch up with some of the great films released over the year. Well,
hypothetically speaking. The big downside this year was that so many films like
Phantom Thread, Call Me By Your Name, The
Post, and Paddington 2, are not
reaching Orlando until well into January, which is disappointing. What’s the
point of even having an end of doing a top list or retrospective when release
dates are this arbitrary, and where’s my Paddington
2!? Granted, this problem is
nothing new as every year so many great films get little or sometimes no chance
to screen here in Florida. So as a fun experiment, instead of catching up on
the 2017 releases, I spent much of my holiday catching up with some of the films
I missed in 2016 and review those instead.
