Like many gifted directors, Tim Burton is a series of contradictions: a neurotic outsider who makes enormously popular tentpole movies; a death-obsessed horror fanatic capable of gooey sentimentality; and a brilliant animator who left cartoons behind for live action that, over the years, has only become less and less lifelike.

This year more than ever, documentaries are expected to challenge our idea of what’s real and what’s fake.

Movies are big business, so it makes sense that their performance at the box office often determines whether they're considered a "success" or "a career-ruining disaster that the studio can never recover from, see if you ever get a movie made in this town again, buddy."

What were the best movies of 2017?

When it comes to documentaries, peak movie season is year-round.

The best comedies of a year never lose our attention (a concession so many "dumb comedies" have to make, apparently) A few can even be thoughtful and get under the skin.

"Horror remakes suck!"

The science-fiction movie genre is as expansive as the galaxy.

I like most horror movies.

In space, no one can hear you scream or laugh or gasp or whisper, "What the hell is THAT?" to the person next to you.

Matt Damon may be playing small, but the ideas flying around in his new movie Downsizing, in which people voluntarily shrink themselves, couldn't be any bigger.

In tennis, an "ace" is when the serve is so perfect that no mortal can even touch it, let alone volley it back.