Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is something of a miracle. Not because it’s the greatest movie ever made, mind you, nor the grandest pronouncement of the cinematic season, but simply that it exists at all.

Now, let me take you back to a time, long ago, when everything was still right in the world: 1990!

No Country for Old Men may well be my favorite Coen Brothers movie. It’s dark, aggressive, and relentless, just like its main villain Anton Chigurh.

O Canada takes the form of an on camera confession. Leo is compelled to filter it through the lens of a video camera, a serious upgrade form the one he used after answering the call of his true vocation, that of documentary filmmaker.

Here’s my biggest issue with the world in Zootopia. If all of the animals have evolved higher intelligence and become anthropomorphized, why are fish still treated like regular fish?