Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Films Lists Overstreet’s Favorite Films of 2025: The Top Twelve For generous subscribers, here is the list of my twelve favorite films of 2025 — only two of which were nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. (I’m guessing there are a few titles here you’ve never heard of, but when you see those movies, you’ll never forget them.)
Favorite Films Overstreet’s Favorite Films of 2025: #25–#13 This post in progress, which will expand over the next week, announces my favorite films of 2025, covering #25–#13. (The Top Twelve post is coming later this week.)
Looking Closer's Annual Favorite Films Lists Overstreet’s Favorite Films of 2025: Honorable Mentions Here is the opening post in my series of posts on my favorite films of 2025. This post will include films I've listed as Honorable Mentions, along with video commentaries, some written notes, movie posters, and trailers for the films.
Django Unchained Blaze of Gory: Overstreet's Christianity Today commentary on Django Unchained One from the archive: Here's the commentary that Christianity Today editors asked me to write in 2013.
Oscars Overstreet's Favorite Films of 2024 — The Top Twelve Gradually, I'm posting my list tonight. Because it sounded like fun. Who knows if anyone will be monitoring this while the Oscar show unfolds...
Favorite Films Overstreet's Favorite Films of 2023 — The Top Ten And so we reach the top of the heap, the culmination of my annual countdown. Here are my ten favorite movies of 2023, each with a poster, a synopsis, a trailer, & my very own video commentary. Enjoy!
On Movies & Media Overstreet's Favorite Films of 2022 — Part Three: The Top Ten The day has finally come — I've seen enough films from 2022, and spent enough time reading about them, talking about them with thoughtful moviegoers, and writing about them that I'm ready to post my favorite films of 2022. (Just in time for the Oscars!)
On Movies & Media Overstreet’s Favorite Films of 2022 — Part Two: Top-Ten-Worthy Runners-Up This list of fifteen more represents all of the movies that I cannot believe I’m not including in my final Top Ten list.
On Movies & Media Overstreet's Favorite Films of 2022 — Part One: Honorable Mentions The Academy Awards are about to hand out a bunch of Oscars, and they're going to throw around the term "best" a lot. That's a relatively meaningless term. I want to know about the films that moved and inspired you. Here's Part One of a three-part post on my own favorite films of 2022.
Newsletter Overstreet's Favorite Films of 2022 — Part Three: The Top Ten! Here, I've posted comments on my ten favorite films of 2022. Each film is announced with its poster, synopsis, trailer, and my very own video commentary. Enjoy!
On Movies & Media Favorite Films of 2021 — Part Three: The Top 30 March madness continues!If you missed Parts One and Two, catch up! I've been asked by the critics at two different podcasts to name my favorite film of 2021, and it's been difficult to answer.At Seeing & Believing with Kevin McLenithan and Sarah Welch-Larson,
On Movies & Media Favorite Films of 2021 — Part Two: Honorable Mentions The March madness continues! Art is not a contest, no matter how heavily the Oscars are hyped. But movies do give us a chance to share what moves us, what challenges us, what enchants us. In doing so, we have an opportunity to learn more about ourselves and — more importantly
On Movies & Media Favorite Films of 2021 — Part One: It's Complicated It's March 12, 2022. The Oscars will be handed out next weekend... ...and I still haven't posted my Favorite Films of 2021 list! Oh, well — better late than never. Why? Why bother? I wouldn't dream of skipping a year: List-making is a personal
On Movies & Media Overstreet's 39 Favorite Films of 2020 Consider this a travel journal full of wonders, escapes, thrills, wisdom, and revelation. These are the films that blessed and challenged me most in 2020. Most of them are easily accessible now and you can enjoy them and share them. Take your time and explore.
On Movies & Media Favorite Films of 2019: Intro and Honorable Mentions It begins with the usual disclaimer: This list, like all of my film lists, is a work in progress. Of course it is. The temptation to pronounce judgments on works of art is great, more than ever in this culture of "rating" things with "Like" or
On Movies & Media Million Dollar Baby joins my 2004 top ten This always happens. No sooner do I turn in my Top Ten list of 2004 to meet a deadline than I suddenly discover a film that changes everything. I’m not much of a Clint Eastwood fan. I love Unforgiven, but I thought Mystic River was overrated film — a flawed
