Watch on Sundance, rent on Amazon and Google Play 65. Watch on Netflix, rent on Amazon and Google Play 73. What We Do in the Shadows (2014), 86 min. Newsweek critic David Ansen wondered if studios weren’t reluctant to give notes to some of the biggest and most visionary directors in Hollywood. Speaking to the Daily Beast three decades later, Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers blamed the bloat on studios’ misguided belief that the longer the movie, the greater the sheen of prestige, the greater the potential for prestigious awards. In Corliss’ estimation, movies had become “longer but not richer,” a trend he argued began toward the end of World War II when movies shifted, broadly speaking, from creations of the studio system to the artistic visions of directors. The question Corliss explored that year is a perennial one, and it’s typically posed as a gripe. From the fertile opening shots to the ravishing close-up that concludes the film, 'Call Me by Your Name' is an enrapturing experience, like a melancholy dream that sends you floating into the enchanted, unwritten future.In 1984, TIME film critic Richard Corliss wrote a piece titled “Why Do Movies Seem So Long?” In it, he recalled a piece of wisdom from Columbia Pictures co-founder Harry Cohn, whose method for judging the quality of a film came down to this: “If my fanny squirms, it’s bad. Life is but a dream in this adaption of André Aciman's celebrated novel, directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, who treat the central courtship like a feature-length Sufjan Stevens ballad.

Their connection builds slowly, steadily, sensually.

Timothée Chalamet gave the year's finest performance, playing a bookish 17-year-old who jumps at the chance to be tour guide and companion for Armie Hammer's strapping grad student. Nestled in the Italian countryside during one lush summer, a love story springs to life, first in furtive gestures and finally with profound euphoria.

The only parallel from 2017 is 'Call Me by Your Name,' the most blissful heartache ever to saunter across the screen. That's how I felt about 'Jackie' last year, and about 'Carol' and 'Mad Max: Fury Road' the year before. Maybe once or twice a year, a movie will come along that I adore so much it seeps into my soul.

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