TEN BEST MOVIES OF 2025 according to Assignment X

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/03/2026
SINNERS movie poster | ©2025 Warner Bros.

THE TEN BEST MOVIES OF 2025   SINNERS – It starts out by telling us that some music is so extraordinary that it is magical, transcending space and time, and damn if this 1930s-era story of twin brothers, their juke joint, local racism and vampires doesn’t make us believe. Featuring an outstanding performance by Michael B. Jordan in a dual role and a star-making turn by young Michael Caton as the young bluesman whose tunes draw in the living and the undead. HAMNET – This adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about William Shakespeare’s creation of HAMLET is an exploration of […]Read On »


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Year in Review: TEN BEST FILMS OF 2022

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/05/2023
SOFT & QUIET movie poster | ©2022 Momentum Pictures/Blumhouse/Shudder

Just as with snowflakes, it’s doubtful that any two Ten Best Films of 2022 lists are alike. This one has movies on it that some people hate, and others that were in limited release, which consequently many people never heard of, much less saw. This represents the opinions of one reviewer, and not of Assignment X as a whole, so take it for what it’s worth. SOFT & QUIET – Writer/director Beth de Araujo made the year’s moment-by-moment most terrifying and viscerally effective film because it’s all so devastatingly convincing, even though it is fiction. It achieves everything it sets […]Read On »


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The X List: Assignment X’s Best of 2010 – Movies

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/06/2011
TRUE GRIT poster | ©2010 Paramount Pictures

The best films of 2010, in the opinion of this reviewer (who still has to catch up with THE FIGHTER, WINTER’S BONE and several other acclaimed releases): THE SOCIAL NETWORK Normally, people working with computers is one of the most boring things that can be put on screen. Director David Fincher, writer Aaron Sorkin and an across-the-board brilliant cast headed up by Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake leave the computers in the background and illustrate the dynamics of friendship and ambition in a way that is remarkably compelling and universal. The fact that the film is about the […]Read On »


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