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Julien Faddoul
5. High Flying Bird
For an exceptional, well-acted, highly intelligent rapid-fire dramedy on the politics – both racial and systemic – of the basketball world. The final few minutes of the film, which adjusts the audience's perception of what has gone before, is some of the most affecting work of Soderbergh’s career.
4. The Irishman (I Heard You Paint Houses)
For a long, muted, deliberate crime film. It is a film about the rumination in between crimes, with searing set-pieces of uncharacteristic laconism, and immaculate performances from the three leading maestros.
3. Little Women
For a marvellous, feminist, baroque adaptation that is presented and edited thematically, rather than narratively, jumping back and forth through time, with an ingenious, Nabokovian-style ending. It is the best cinematic adaptation of this material to date.
2. Parasite
For the year's most thrilling ride. An exemplary, unpredictable, witty satire on class struggles, social mobility and “solidarity forever”, with riveting Hitchcockian staging and excellent performances.
1. Deadwood
For a bouquet, an appraisal and a partner in crime. Those who have been waiting 13 years for Milch’s prematurely cancelled masterwork on the symbolic establishing of American civilization from human chaos, to finally be encapsulated and adjourned, will be confronted with the realization that, at age 74, not only does he meet the mastery of said work, but he eclipses it.
My Top Ten
6. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
7. Ash is Purest White
8. Her Smell
9. Knives Out
10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Honorable Mentions (Alphabetical)
The Farewell
Marriage Story
Uncut Gems
Films I'm Sad to Have Missed
After the Wedding
American Dharma
American Woman
The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
The Aeronauts
Birds of Passage
By the Grace of God
Clemency
Climax
Cold Case Hammerskjöld
Cold Brook
Corporate Animals
Depraved
Diamantino
Dogman
Donnybrook
Dragged Across Concrete
An Elephant Sitting Still
Everybody Knows
A Faithful Man
Freaks
Give Me Liberty
Hail Satan?
Hotel by the River
The Image Book
In Fabric
In My Room
Invisible Life
Jawline
Juanita
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Little Joe
Little Monsters
Little Woods
Loro
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Les Miserables
Mister America
The Mountain
The Nightingale
Our Time
Paddleton
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Peel
Piercing
Primal
Rojo
Seberg
Shadow
Sword of Trust
Synonyms
3 Faces
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Varda by Agnes
The Wild Pear Tree
Woman at War
Films I'm REALLY Sad to Have Missed
La flor
One Cut of the Dead
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