Top 10 this year
1. This Is Our Land (Lucas Belveaux, France)
2. Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh, USA)
3. The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, Britain)
4. The Rider (Chloe Zhao, USA)
5. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont, France)
6. The Cage Fighter (Jeff Unay, USA)
7. The Road Movie (Dmitrii Kalashnikov, Russia)
8. Ismael’s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
9. Good Luck (Ben Russell, Serbia/Suriname)
10. Beirut (Brad Anderson, 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: seven)
Festival films with 8-,9- or 10-grades TK: Let the Corpses Tan, (Helene Cattet / Bruno Forzani, Belgium); Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker, USA); Leave No Trace (Deborah Granik, USA); Arizona (Jonathan Watson, USA); The Guilty (Gustav Moller, Denmark); Night Comes On (Jordana Spiro, USA); Puzzle (Mark Turteltaub, USA)
