Billed as one of the year’s best pictures, and quite rightly so, as the film’s mastery of its tragicomic tone and a solid ensemble cast combine to reach both tearjerking and comedic highs.
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Hangover, The (2009)
This is highly-accomplished raunchy comedy filmmaking for the modern age, and no doubt one of the best films of 2009.
Joker (2019)
What a strange and risk-taking studio movie this is—a disturbingly-violent Hollywood-style if also arthouse-type character study that just about holds everything together thanks to a killer performance by Joaquin Phoenix.
Port Authority (2019)
This debut feature may be raw at times, but there’s an undeniable organic quality to the filmmaking about a young man who meets a trans woman in the New York kiki scene.
Midsommar (2019)
Ari Aster’s sophomore effort may be too disturbing for the uninitiated viewer, but its strange, otherworldly quality is an experience like no other.
Hereditary (2018)
Not even Toni Collette’s arresting performance or the film’s excellent craftsmanship can save this rather uncompelling and overrated horror-mystery.
Ad Astra (2019)
An immensely well-crafted hero’s tale through space that explores existential ideas at a deliberate pace, but its final landing is not entirely convincing.
