These are films that I am looking forward to seeing and would make great alternatives if you can't get a ticket to one of the
other films on this list.
The
only film on the list above that I saw in a theatre is Certain Women, a beautifully enigmatic poem and an instant favourite.
While I get to see movies for free for reviewing purposes,
several films on this list I enjoyed so much that I paid to see on more than one occasion.
The first and
only film on the list to feature monsters that spread their sickness without the exchange of any bodily fluids.
A handful
of films on this list, in fact, were produced by streaming services like Amazon, with some of them not even receiving a wide theatrical release.
The first of the two
films on this list about troubled musicians, Love & Mercy is surprisingly sprightly biopic about the life of Brian Wilson.
The
next film on the list however is a little more of a surprise with Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained taking the sixth spot.
If you take a little scroll through my film reviews, you may notice that the
oldest films on the list Continue reading →
Perhaps the only
film on this list more about what isn't in the script than what is, Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea is one of the best portrayals of grief in cinema.
It's not the
worst film on this list, but it's certainly the most aggressively bad, offering up a specific brand of awfulness that tends to leave a lasting mark on anyone who watches it.
Amour is the must -
see film on this list, for sure, but Side Effects and Warm Bodies both deserve your attention.
9) A Ghost Story — Arguably the
artsiest film on my list, David Lowery's self - financed supernatural drama is an unforgettable experience.
The film, starring Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy, was for a brief period the highest - grossing film in the U.K. (until it got pushed out by another
titanic film on our list).
«Gloria» Without doubt the straight - up
happiest film on this list, Sebastian Lelio's «Gloria» is outwardly extremely simple: a portrait of an ageing divorcee and mother of two grown children as she experiences ups and downs in her romantic life and a love / hate relationship with her neighbor's hairless cat.
The second Claire
Denis film on my list may seem an overly convenient choice for # 1, given how it neatly covers the prominent 2009 trends of standout female filmmakers, stories about Africa and, well, great Claire Denis films.
Perhaps the most realistic and
gritty film on this list, Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was considered to be a huge turning point in the history of British cinema.
Wingard's
second film on the list, You're Next is top - notch home - invasion horror mixed with an undercurrent of dark familial humor that doesn't quite leaven the proceedings but rather brings out the characters so you have a sense of who they are before they're taken out in brutal fashion.
If you're not sure where I'm going with this, shockingly, only one
film on the list made its public debut after Sept. 5.
While not the most
queer film on the list, it is famous for a lesbian kiss between Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz.
The second Gary
Jones film on the list, Death Swamp, also known as Crocodile 2: Death Roll — whatever that means — is an unrelated sequel to a low point in Tobe Hooper's career: the movie Crocodile.
Agassi (The Handmaiden, Park Chan - wook, 2016) While most of the other
films on this list aim for subdued minimalism, this film sounds the call for maximalism loud and clear, marrying a delightfully twisted narrative with the most pleasurable romance of the year.
Having taken in $ 92.9 million (adjusted for inflation), the film starring Greg Kinnear is the fourth highest - grossing
Christian film on our list at $ 944.4 million inflation - adjusted dollars.
But the sum result of this film never added up into the emotional surge that Spielberg's top two
films on this list did, and the film has never really connected with a large audience.
Crazy Heart: I make no apologies for putting Scott Cooper's first
feature film on my list, sentimental excesses and all.
I can already hear the sighs of frustration and discontent at the sight of a
TWILIGHT film on this list, however in terms of exhilarating vampire - filled action THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE deserves to be revisited.
Though Jacob's Ladder is still one of the more
underrated films on this list, it's still holds a huge sway on the horror genre, having inspired the Silent Hill game franchise, American Horror Story: Asylum, and more.
Argentina's entry, El Secreto de Sus Ojos, stars the great Ricardo Darín (Nine Queens, El Aura), who would have been in two
films on this list if Spain's entry, (no, it was not Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces) Fernando Trueba's The Dancer and The Thief, had made the cut; which it did not.
To displace the most
successful film on this list directed by a woman — Elizabeth Banks» «Pitch Perfect 2» — «Rough Night» will have to make nearly $ 190 million.
Looks like we made it to the end The
saddest film on this list is Michael Haneke's portrait of the end of a marriage, as Parisians Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) face the inevitability of parting after almost a lifetime together.
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