Catching Up With the Critics (Part I)

Turning to the professionals to seek out the great, unseen movies of the last nine months.

Every year around this time at The Reveal, as summer ends and the avalanche of fall prestige-movie season begins, I like to take stock of the many potentially great films that I missed from the first two-thirds of the year. In the past, I’ve used the aggregation site Metacritic and its list of the year’s highest-rated films as a guide, going through the…