hosted by Bad Feminist writer Roxane Gay) and this film continues her sharp observation of, among other things, how it feels to be truly comfortable in the company of another person.Ģ. She has had a tremendous feel for physical closeness going back to her great 2000 sports romance Love And Basketball (which had a good year itself, including a screening in L.A.
The way director Gina Prince-Bythewood presents Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker in bed together – not just having sex, but lolling about idly – in the gorgeous Beyond The Lights. Without further ado, and with gratitude to all of you for reading this year and all of these great folks (and lots of other great folks) for making such good stuff, let's get on with it.ġ. (Whenever I make this list, someone says something like, 'How about a walk in the woods, huh? How about that?' Yes. It leans away from (but doesn't entirely avoid) what's been most highly praised and what seems to have been most rewarded.Īlso: It is cultural things, not all wonderful things. It is not merely subjective but sublimely subjective. It is not a definitive list of the best things. This is a list of 50 of the wonderful things that wandered through my field of vision in 2014. Unless pressed, I will make exactly one each year, and this is it.
Jenny Slate and Jake Lacy in Obvious Child.
