by
Julien Faddoul
5. Pete’s
Dragon
For a wistful, moving and
utterly unpretentious family film from Disney with a refreshing sense of
bluntness and respect toward its target audience that left me utterly floured.
4. 20th
Century Women
For a witty, rhythmic
coming-of-age comedy with a great deal of ruminative thought. Superbly written
and acted, it captures its laissez-faire age and its disaffected inhabitants with a kind of liberating humanity.
3. Moonlight
For a beautiful, gripping,
penetrating drama with an almost electric delicacy. It presents such a wide
viewpoint of empathy that is rarely seen on screen, despite its affected air of
broken-hearted yearning.
2. Cameraperson
A cinematic memoir: The
result is breathtaking, not only because every piece is either moving or
hilarious or provocative in itself, but also because everything is about
context, and experiencing it through the cinema’s guidance changes all meaning.
And although much of the film depicts the destructive acts many people are
capable of, its lasting sensation is one of compassion. But as a film, it is
one of the purist pieces of cinema one could witness.
1. OJ: Made
in America
For a massive 8-hour
collage of drama, public footage, private footage and 72 interviews conducted
over the course of 18 months that all culminates in one of the greatest pieces
of cinematic journalism ever committed to the medium: covering not only the
circumstances surrounding The Trial of the Century, but using it to ignite a
staggering disquisition on the social history of race, fame, sports and Los
Angeles over the past half-century. And it’s that world that produced the
Shakespearean tragedy of O.J. Simpson, a man who was made in America.
My Top Ten
6. Indignation
7. Jackie
8. La La Land
9. Cemetery of
Splendour
10. Kubo and
the Two Strings
Honorable
Mentions (Alphabetical)
The Club
Everybody Wants
Some
Finding Dory
Green Room
Hail, Caesar!
Kate Plays
Christine
The Love Witch
Silence
Sully
10 Cloverfield
Lane
Weiner
The Witch
Films I'm Sad
to Have Missed
Amanda Knox
April and the
Extraordinary World
Aquarius
Barry
Being 17
Between Us
Blue Jay
Born to be Blue
Chevalier
The Childhood
of a Leader
Chronic
Cosmos
Creepy
Deephan
Denial
De Palma
Dog Eat Dog
Do Not Resist
Don’t Think
Twice
Francofonia
The Greasy
Strangler
Hands of Stone
Hello My Name
is Doris
Hunter Gatherer
Hush
The Innocents
The
Intervention
Into the
Inferno
Jim: The James
Foley Story
The Lovers and
the Despot
Maggie's Plan
Men &
Chicken
Miss Stevens
Mountains May
Depart
Mr Chicken
Nuts
Operation
Avalanche
Ouija: Origin
of Evil
Our Little
Sister
Rats
Southside with
You
Tallulah
Time Out of
Mind
Tower
The Wailing
White Girl
The Witness
Films I'm
REALLY Sad to Have Missed
The Handmaiden
Neruda
The Salesman
Toni Erdman
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