Top 10 this year
1. This Is Our Land (Lucas Belveaux, France)
2. Leave No Trace (Deborah Granik, USA)
3. Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh, USA)
4. The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, Britain)
5. Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, USA)
6. The Rider (Chloe Zhao, USA)
7. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont, France)
8. The Cage Fighter (Jeff Unay, USA)
9. The Road Movie (Dmitrii Kalashnikov, Russia)
10. The Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, USA)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
English fiction:
Foreign fiction:
Documentary:
(Number of films on this list with 8- or 9- grades, which will put them at least in Honorable Mentions at year’s end: eight)
Festival films with 8-,9- or 10-grades TK: Let the Corpses Tan, (Helene Cattet / Bruno Forzani, Belgium); Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, USA); Arizona (Jonathan Watson, USA); The Guilty (Gustav Moller, Denmark); Night Comes On (Jordana Spiro, USA); Puzzle (Mark Turteltaub, USA)
