Told from her perspective and staged as a claustrophobic horror story with ratcheting tension, Krisha (available on Amazon Prime) is the kind of film that will have you proselytizing about it for weeks - or at least that’s what it did for me.Ĥ. Shults’ aunt Krisha Fairchild, an actress who had never gotten her big break, stars as the title character, a recovering addict returning home for Thanksgiving for the first time in years. Krisha: This micro-budgeted family drama from newcomer Trey Edward Shults is one of the most searing films of the year, made all the more remarkable by the fact that Shults filmed it in his mother’s house in nine days with a cast drawn largely from his own family acting out a fictionalized version of one of its most traumatic moments. This, too, screened in Lubbock but not, as yet, in Amarillo.ģ. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga shoulder the weight of the film - and the history - beautifully, with Nichols shooting everything in a muted tone that focuses us on their love, not on the hate surrounding them. Loving: Extraordinarily powerful precisely because it doesn’t swing for the fences, Jeff Nichols’ historical drama keeps its focus tight on the interracial Virginia couple whose marriage led to their arrest and banishment from their home state, a case that ultimately led to a Supreme Court ruling overturning anti-miscegenation laws. It’s somber and bathed in blue (the color and the feeling), but despite the despair Chiron often, justifiably feels, the film - which screened in November in Lubbock, but not yet in Amarillo - gives us valuable insight into the marginalized - inspiring, we hope, righteous empathy in its viewers.Ģ. We follow young Chiron through three stages of his life - a preteen (Alex Hibbert) who avoids his crack-addled mother only to find an unexpected protector and mentor in a drug dealer, Juan (Mahershala Ali) a teen (Ashton Sanders) constantly bullied in school and finding his hopes unexpectedly raised, then dashed and a hardened man (Trevante Rhodes), following in Juan’s footsteps only to see his past unexpectedly resurrected. Moonlight: Lyrical and haunting, heartbreaking but ultimately hopeful, writer-director Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s unproduced play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue is wonderfully universal in its specificity. I'm still surprised that two of them didn't, and I'm still hopeful that two more soon will, and the good news is, you can see eight of them now at your home.ġ.
Well, so says the avowed Lubbock-hater who nonetheless drove south to see not one, but two of 2016's best-received movies.īut a look back at the year's greatest films wouldn't be complete without considering those that didn't actually flicker to life in Amarillo's theaters. And with the ever-shortening window between theatrical and digital release, the wait to catch many films really isn't terribly onerous anymore.
The truth is, attentive Amarillo audiences can catch many of the year's best films in our theaters, as you can see in Part 1 of this list. We're not alone: Some acclaimed flicks only play in New York and Los Angeles to qualify for an Oscar race or ahead of a VOD release, or only play on the festival circuit without finding a distributor.
#AVOWED BY THE MOONLIGHT MOVIE#
By Chip Chandler - Digital Content ProducerĪs Amarillo movie buffs know, not every film screens here.
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