Film Freak Central’s Top 10 of 1997
Editor's Note, December 24, 2012: Again, this material is pretty stale. Mostly reposting it for posterity, something I can't always bring myself to do when it comes to the early reviews.
The following Ten Best list reflects only the opinions of Bill Chambers–FILM FREAK CENTRAL's webmaster–and not necessarily those of this site's other contributors.
1. The Ice Storm– Suburbia in most films is portrayed as a white picket fence surrounding a dozen Addams families. The Ice Storm is less eager to impress us with quirky kinfolk–it places two neighbouring, dysfunctional families under a microscope. Witty without being jokey, sad without being blatantly tearjerking, this is that sort of film so unforgiving that audiences stayed away in droves.