Films | Pete Timmermann
All throughout 2014, I kept having big ideas of how my Top Ten Films of 2014 list would look. At first I thought it was going to be about half documentaries, and then more recently […]
All throughout 2014, I kept having big ideas of how my Top Ten Films of 2014 list would look. At first I thought it was going to be about half documentaries, and then more recently […]
I completely feel like it was a hit and took the Turtles in a new direction while still paying homage to all the TMNT versions from the years.
The Roger Ebert documentary, Life Itself (not on my list, although I did like it) opens with a quote from the great critic, saying that “Movies have the power to enrich our lives, rather than […]
Foreign-language films and/or avant garde films make up most of my list of the best of 2014’s releases that didn’t find their way to St. Louis’s theaters.

Sometimes the efficiency of a top 10 films list just feels too confining, particularly given the variety of ways we experience movies these days.
This was a very good year for cinema, both for the films and the performances that made going to the theater more exciting than it has been in years.
Director Anton Corbijn captures the chill of John Le Carré’s spy thriller as well as the dreary life of the international espionage trade.
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