Top 10 this year
1. Let the Corpses Tan (Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Belgium)
2. Leave No Trace (Deborah Granik, USA)
3. Ben Is Back (Peter Hedges, USA)
4. Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, USA)
5. Roma (Alfonso Cuaron, Mexico)
6. Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
7. This Is Our Land (Lucas Belveaux, France)
8. The House that Jack Built (Lars Von Trier, Denmark)
9. Arizona (Jonathan Watson, USA)
10. Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh, USA)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
English fiction:
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, Britain); Blindspotting (Carlos Lopez Estrada, USA); The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, Britain); Can You Ever Forgive Me (Marielle Heller, USA); 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:
The Captain (Robert Schwentke, Germany); Cold War (Pavel Pawlikowski, Poland); Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont, France); Burning (Lee Chan-dong, South Korea); The Guilty (Gustav Moller, Denmark)
Documentary:
Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle, USA); 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: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Radu Jude, Romania); In My Room (Ulrich Kohler, Germany); American Dharma (Errol Morris, USA); High Life (Clare Denis, France); Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke, China)
