Top 10 this year
1. Let the Corpses Tan (Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Belgium)
2. Leave No Trace (Deborah Granik, USA)
3. Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, USA)
4. This Is Our Land (Lucas Belveaux, France)
5. Arizona (Jonathan Watson, USA)
6. Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh, USA)
7. The Captain (Robert Schwentke, Germany)
8. Blindspotting (Carlos Lopez Estrada, USA)
9. The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, Britain)
10. Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, USA)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
English fiction:
The Rider (Chloe Zhao, USA); BlacKKKlansman (Spike Lee, USA); Night Comes On (Jordana Spiro, USA); Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham, USA); Puzzle (Marc Turteltaub, USA)
Foreign fiction:
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont, France); Burning (Lee Chan-dong, South Korea); The Guilty (Gustav Moller, Denmark)
Documentary:
Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman, USA); The Cage Fighter (Jeff Unay, USA); The Road Movie (Dmitrii Kalashnikov, Russia); The Great Buster (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
Festival films with 8-,9- or 10-grades TK: Roma (Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico); Ben Is Back (Peter Hedges, USA); The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, Britain); Cold War (Pavel Pawlikowski, Poland); In My Room (Ulrich Kohler, Germany); American Dharma (Errol Morris, USA); High Life (Clare Denis, France); Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke, China)
