Top 10 this year
1. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
2. “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (Radu Jude, Romania)
3. Cold Case Hammerskjöld (Mads Brugger, Denmark)
4. They Shall Not Grow Old (Peter Jackson, Britain / New Zealand)
5. Shadow (Zhang Yimou, China)
6. Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
7. Give Me Liberty (Kirilk Mikhanovsky, USA)
8. Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller, USA)
9. High Life (Claire Denis, France)
10. Amazing Johnathan Documentary (Ben Berman, USA)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
English fiction:
In Fabric (Peter Strickland, Britain)*
Foreign fiction:
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke, China); Monos (Alejandro Landes and Alexis Dos Santos, Colombia)
Documentary:
One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang and Lynn Zhang, USA/China)
Festival films with 8-,9- or 10-grades, with distribution status or date uncertain: Queen of Hearts (May El-Toukhy, Denmark); In My Room (Ulrich Kohler, Germany); American Dharma (Errol Morris, USA)
* Not yet released, but a U.S. date for this year is set.
