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25LET THE CORPSES TAN
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Married filmmakers Hlne Cattet and Bruno Forzani are masters at deconstructing and reassembling traditional genre stories into avant-garde explosions of color, music, and motifs, and after tackling Italian giallos with Amer andThe Strange Colour of Your Bodys Tears, they shift to Westerns withLet the Corpses Tan.
More conventionally plotted than those preceding efforts (relatively speaking), the Franco-Belgian duos feature tells the story of three criminals who, after successfully robbing an armored car, take refuge at a mysterious womans (Elina Lwensohn) home in the arid hills of a seaside island. The arrival of unexpected relatives and a showdown with cops sparks a cat-and-mouse game thats deliriously deranged, in large part thanks to flashbacks involving a silhouetted woman doing perverse things to a group of adversarial men. Even when it becomes head-spinningly convoluted, Cattet and Forzanis sumptuous style and flamboyant gruesomenessepitomized by two sights that moviegoers arent likely to forget anytime soonkeep things wildly energized.

24BLACK PANTHER
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Marvel movies are designed to hew to convention, the better to allow them to seamlessly fit together into the larger tapestry of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Still, within their stand-alone confines, they afford some room for artistic risk-taking, as is evidenced byBlack Panther, Ryan Cooglers blockbuster about the war for fictional African nation Wakanda.
On one side of that conflict is Chadwick Bosemans noble King TChalla (aka Black Panther), who believes that protecting his people is best achieved by hiding them from the outside world. And on the other side is Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), a violent challenger to the throne who wants to use his homelands technological might to stage an oppression-upending global revolution.
Underscored by such weighty hot-button themes, Cooglers material is enlivened by eye-popping production design and captivating performances, in particular from Jordan, whose antagonist proves the finest superhero villain since the late Heath Ledgers Clown Prince of Crime. Its a distinctly African-American comic-book epic with universal appeal.

23RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA
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An unconventional non-fiction portrait that seeks to understand its subject on an artistic and humanrather than purely biography-checklistlevel,Ryuichi Sakamoto: Codadepicts the world-famous composer as he works, reminisces, and ruminates on the melancholia thats central to his music and his heart. Amidst amusing anecdotes about director Bernardo Bertolucci (for whom he did the scores forThe Last EmperorandThe Sheltering Sky, the former earning him an Oscar), Sakamoto discusses his fondness for melding environmental and electronic sounds, the feeling of ?alarm that first motivated him to become an environmental activist, and his attraction to a damaged piano that survived the 2011 tsunami.
Through those and other topics, including his stage-three throat cancer, the artist grapples with the mortality of man, Mother Nature, and his music, whichroutinely heard being composed and/or played throughoutblends the chaotic and the harmonic, the artificial and the natural, with transportive poignancy.

22NOVEMBER
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For pure, uninhibited craziness, few recent films can match Estonian writer/director Rainer SarnetsNovember, an adaptation of Andrus Kivirahks novelRehepappthat operates like a Grimms fairy tale as reimagined by Czech animator Jan Svankmajer and Italian horror legend Mario Bava.
A black-and-white saga involving werewolves, witches, ghosts, the Devil, and strange contraptions built from rural gardening tools that are then brought to life by dead peoples soulsand used as de facto slaves by their creatorsthis import is a beguiling, and slyly amusing, whatsit that never comes close to dipping its toes in familiar waters. That it also featuresThe Human Centipedes creepy star Dieter Laser only further pushes it into out-there realms.
Ultimately far more entrancing that its weirdness, however, is its hypnotic otherworldly romanticism, as well as its complicated perspective on the lengths to which people will go to satisfy their desiresand to achieve coveted (but often elusive) happily-ever-afters.

21A QUIET PLACE
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There are few gimmicks that horror films havent already beaten to death, but John Krasinskiserving as writer, director, and co-leadmanages to put a new twist on a familiar survival story withA Quiet Place. In a near future overrun by hearing-enhanced monsters, humanity must stay completely silent in order to avoid detection and surefire death. That scenario is the basis for the tale of the Abbott family, who in the aftermath of a tragic loss struggle to get by while preparing for the impending arrival of a new member, courtesy of their pregnant matriarch (Emily Blunt).
Krasinskis stripped-down script is light on dialogue but rich with well-drawn character dynamics, and his plotting has an efficiency that enhances its nerve-fraying tension. Its the rare monster movie whose terror doesnt flag after its inhuman baddie has been seen in the light of day; Krasinskis third behind-the-camera effort remains taut all the way through its sorrowful and suspenseful climax.

20BLACKKKLANSMAN
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As energized as anything hes made in years, Spike LeesBlacKkKlansmantackles our current white nationalist-stained era via the based-on-real-events tale of 1970s African-American rookie undercover detective Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), who infiltrates the KKK with the aid of Jewish partner Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver). Lee has a tendency to let scenes run on long after their point (and impact) has been made, yet here, that habit rarely undercuts the electricity of his action, which has Stallworth and Zimmerman posing as a racist white man (the former on the phone, the latter in person) to gain the confidence of the Klan and its leader, David Duke (Topher Grace)all as Stallworth develops a less-than-upfront relationship with an African-American activist (Laura Harrier).
Rooted in issues of intolerance and identity (and what it takes to ?pass in particular societies), rife with current-events parallels, and canny about its own place in cinema history (and movies effect on the national discourse), its amusing, suspenseful, and intensely engaged with the present moment.

19SWEET COUNTRY
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In the bleak, barren Outback circa 1929, an Aboriginal man named Sam Kelly (Hamilton Morris) finds himself on the run from pursuerswith his wife in towafter he kills a nasty white man in self-defense.
Dramatized without musical accompaniment, Warwick Thorntons gripping and gorgeous Australian Western recounts Sams fictional ordeal with potent authenticity, his feel for the hardscrabble region and its legacy of violence and bigotry doing much to infuse the action with rugged life. As a preacher with Sams best interests at heart, Sam Neill is his usually magnetic, compelling self, while Bryan Brown brings complex determination to his role as a military sergeant tasked with tracking Sam down.
Most powerful of all, though, is the standout performance of Morris, who with minimal words and slight gesturesa nod of the head, a shift in body weight, an expression of closed-eyes resignation or defianceconveys the immense toll of ingrained historic prejudice on an individuals, and a nations, soul.

18REVENGE
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Few exploitation-cinema subgenres are as durable (and problematic) as the rape-revenge fantasy, and French writer-director Coralie Fargeats contribution to that group has a fierce vitality and self-conscious sense of humor that invigorates its familiar premise. In a vast desert, a married mans (Kevin Janssens) sexy young mistress (Matilda Lutz) is sexually assaulted by one of his two visiting friends; when she subsequently flees, they attempt to kill her, albeit unsuccessfully.
That instigates a game of cat-and-mouse in the vast, arid middle of nowhere, which Fargeat stages with extreme stylishness, whether its close-ups of gushing wounded flesh or a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-hallucination sequence that underlines her playful attitude toward the proceedings. Refusing to revel in its heroines torment, indulging in over-the-top symbolism, and delivering action set pieces that are equally thrilling and goofyincluding a mountain-road showdown and climactic single-take pursuit that confirm Fargeats formal dexterityit proves a righteously wicked midnight movie for the #MeToo era.

17BISBEE 17
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In 1917, the sheriff of Bisbee, Arizonaa remote mountain-nestled enclave then known for its wealth of copperrounded up the towns striking German and Mexican miners and, with the aid of a 2,000-man posse, took them out to the desert and left them there, never to be seen or thought about again. Robert Greenes daring and accomplishedBisbee '17refuses to consign those unjustly persecuted victims to the forgotten realms of history, instead using traditional documentary footage and dramatic reenactmentsoften taking the surprising form of musical numbersto revisit that calamitous event.
As in his priorActressandKate Plays Christine, Greenes blending of fiction and non-fiction techniques is assured, and results in an insightful investigation into race relations, class conflicts, and the nature of memory. A mournful ghost story that doubles as an act of resurrection and reclamation, its a saga about past crimes with undeniable present relevance.

16LET THE SUNSHINE IN
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Though French auteur Claire Denis (Beau Travail,Trouble Every Day,White Material) has made a career out of crafting eroticized dramas, shes never ventured as close to rom-com territory as she does with her latest. At once breezy and melancholy,Let the Sunshine Inis the story of Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), a divorced middle-aged artist whose dating life is marked by fleeting moments of bliss followed by inevitable disappointment and disillusionment. Be it her affair with a callous banker (Xavier Beauvois) or a married actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle), Isabelle is drawn, again and again, to those who are ill-suited for sustained relationships
In her comic-yet-bittersweet encounters with these would-be partners, Denis (working with co-screenwriter Christine Angot) pinpoints the many ways in which both Isabelle and her paramours are responsible for their missed connections. Astute and light on its feet, its also an ideal showcase for the terrific Binoche, who evokes her characters tangled web of emotions with affecting naturalness.

15LEAVE NO TRACE
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Eight years after her last fictional feature (2010sWinters Bone) introduced the world to Jennifer Lawrence, writer-director Debra Granik returns withLeave No Trace, a pensive, thorny character study about a father (Ben Foster) and daughter (newcomer Thomasin McKenzie) illegally living off the grid in the national forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Once again teaming with co-screenwriter Anne Rosellini and cinematographer Michael McDonough (this time on an adaptation of Peter Rocks novelMy Abandonment), Granik details the ins and outs of her characters isolated circumstances while plumbing the trauma thats driven Fosters dad to retreat from societyand the tension that develops between him and his daughter, who finds it difficult to assume her fathers grievances (and, thus, lifestyle). Theres no judgment here, just empathetic curiosity about unique lives situated on societys fringeas well as some fantastic acting from a silently tormented Foster and a confused and brave McKenzie in a sterling debut performance.

14A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN
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Thai prisons are best avoided at all costs, and Jean-Stphane Sauvaires adaptation of Billy Moores autobiography is disturbing proof of that fact. After a life of selling (and abusing) drugs lands him in the notorious ?Bangkok Hilton, boxer Moore (Joe Cole) struggles to survive a new world for which hes not prepared. Acts of rape and violence are omnipresent in this ramshackle environment, which Sauvaire brings to horrifying life through blistering handheld cinematography and equally jarring sound design, replete with Thai dialogue thats left un-subtitled for maximum disorientation.
Tracing Moores rocky path from wanton self-destruction to uneasy transcendence, the film is as unsentimental as it is brutal, especially in its pugilistic sequences, which the director shoots with an astounding measure of up-close-and-personal viciousness and an apparent lack of choreography, as combatants wail on each other with reckless abandon. Coles go-for-broke performance as this out-of-control manall crazy-eyed desolation and battering-ram physicalityis the stuff that turns actors into stars.

13MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT
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Tom Cruise risks life and limbliterally, in many instancesfor his sixth go-round as Ethan Hunt inMission: Impossible Fallout, the finest action film since 2015sMad Max: Fury Road. In writer/director Christopher McQuarries adrenalized espionage thriller, Hunt is tasked with recovering a trio of plutonium cores while juggling his relationships with colleagues (Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin), alluring spy Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), and former wife Julia (Michelle Monaghan)not to mention CIA-assigned assassin August Walker (Henry Cavill), who has orders to kill Hunt should he stray from his assignment.
That intertwining of the personal and professional provides a sturdy backbone for a series of set pieces that, especially in IMAX, are nothing short of astonishing, as McQuarrie begins with a slam-bang bathroom brawl and then continually ups the eye-opening ante, culminating with an aerial showdown between Hunt and Walker aboard helicopters that establishes Cruise, and the series, as the reigning kings of Hollywood spectacle.

12THE ENDLESS
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Indie directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorheads first two features, 2012sResolutionand 2014sSpring, were an idiosyncratic blend of indie character drama and supernatural menace and madness. That mix is even more apparent in their excellent third feature, which charts the odyssey of two brothers (played by Benson and Moorhead) as they make a return visit to the remote California UFO sex cult that they first fledunder controversial, and headline-making, circumstancesyears earlier.
Existing in the same fictional cine-verse as their low-budget debut,The Endlessgenerates unease, and then dawning terror, from its raft of beguiling mysteries, which, from a simple starting point, spiral outward in an increasingly all-consuming manner. Yet no matter its gradual descent into unreal terrain, its primary focus remains the fraught relationship between its sibling protagonists, whose push-pull rapport is central to the films overarching, and affecting, examination of conformity, rebellion, and the insidious cycles (of thought, and behavior) that threaten to trap us where we stand.

11PADDINGTON 2
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A superior slice of childrens entertainment, Paul Kings sequel to 2015sPaddingtonis a sheer joy, infused with comic inspiration and irresistible sweetness. In this second series installment based on the stories of author Michael Bond, the perpetually hatted Paddington (voiced by Ben Wishaw) winds up in prison after hes framed for the theft of an elaborate pop-up book that he planned to purchase for his dear Aunt Lucy (Imelda Staunton)a crime thats actually been perpetrated by a faded local actor (and master of disguise) played to cartoonish perfection by Hugh Grant.
The set pieces are uniformly inventive, the hybrid live-action/CGI aesthetics are superb, and the supporting castincluding Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, and Peter Capaldiis across-the-board fantastic. Only the hardest of hearts could resist its good-natured charm, epitomized by its sincere belief (advocated by Paddington himself) that the key to improving the world (and ourselves) is compassion, affection, politeness, and positivity.

10FILMWORKER
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Leon Vitali delivered a star-making turn as Lord Bullingdon in Stanley Kubricks 1975 period-pieceBarry Lyndon. After that performance, however, the actor opted to become his directors right-hand mana position he would hold until Kubricks death in 1999.Filmworker, Tony Zierras outstanding documentary about Vitali, is a portrait of a man who subsumed his own priorities and personality in order to be whatever his employer required, which in this case included operating as an acting coach, a script supervisor, an exacting technician, and an advertising manager.
A study of obsessive devotion and self-destruction, Zierras film conveys the round-the-clock arduousness of assisting a perfectionist like Kubrick, and the toll such employment took on Vitalis health and relationship with his family. Now an apprentice without a master, Vitali proves a complex figure of commitment taken to a crazy extremeas well as a charismatic artist in his own right, whose recognition for the work he did alongside the2001andThe Shiningauteur remains long overdue.

9EIGHTH GRADE
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Teenagerdom is tough, and Bo BurnhamsEighth Gradecaptures the difficult ups and downs of that universal experience with amusing and moving realism. Elsie Fisher is a revelation as thirteen-year-old Kayla, whose day-to-day existence on the cusp of middle school graduation is defined by social media, squabbles with her single dad (Josh Hamilton), and social anxiety and ostracism.
Burnhams plot is littered with specific bits that anyone who is (or is living with someone) this age will recognize as spot-on (?LeBron James!). More compelling still is his depiction of social medias role in kids process of self-definition, of girls awkward and often unpleasant first forays into romantic and sexual territory, and of the peer pressure-created insecurities that complicate ones maturation (and relationship with parents). Unvarnished to the point of sometimes being outright cringe-worthy, it recognizes how tough it is to figure out who you areand locates hope in the knowledge that that process continues long after youve moved on to high school.

824 FRAMES
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Before passing away in 2016 at the age of 76, Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami completed work on this, his final film, an experimental documentary that serves as a melancholy meditation on mortality and the moving image. As original as it is striking,24 Framesfeatures twenty-four scenes, each containing a still photograph taken by Kiarostami (save for the opening shot of Pieter Bruegels 1565 paintingThe Hunters in the Snow) that then slowly comes to animated life courtesy of sly digital effects that cause animals to run, clouds to roll by, and smoke to billow from chimneys. By lingering on each of these sights as they spring into action, the director situates viewers in a trancelike realm.
While no overt commentary is provided, the repetition of objects, figures and rhythms soon impart the projects underlying fascination with issues of loneliness, compassion, romance, and the inexorable forward march of timea subject that, in the end, reveals Kiarostamis swan song as a moving treatise on his, and mankinds, fundamental impermanence.

7ZAMA
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Ten years afterThe Headless Woman, Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel returns with another mesmeric reverieZama, an adaptation of Antonio di Benedettos 1956 novel about an 18th century Spanish official, Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Gimnez Cacho), stuck in a Paraguay River outpost from which he cannot escape. Awash in existential doubt and despair, Zama tends to mundane magisterial tasks, flirts with a noblewoman (Lola Dueas), and vainly requests transfer back home to see his wife and kidsthe last of which is pointedly, and hilariously, dramatized during a scene in which a llama wanders into the frame behind Zama, accentuating his absurdity.
Cinematographer Rui Poas exquisitely framed imagery, and Guido Berenblums arresting natural-noises sound design, lend unreal beauty to the first halfs series of go-nowhere bureaucratic and personal encounters, which underline the protagonists purgatorial condition as well as the prejudiced power dynamics that serve as this new societys foundation. A finale in which Zama takes action then transforms the film into a nightmare of confusion, alienation, and futility.

6FIRST REFORMED
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Its been forty-two years sinceTaxi Driverfirst verified Paul Schraders greatness, and withFirst Reformed, the writer-director provides a magnificent companion piece to that earlier triumph. Also indebted to Robert Bresson, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Ingmar Bergman, Schraders religious drama (shot in a boxy 1.37:1 aspect ratio) fixates on Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke), an upstate New York man of the cloth whose ongoing crisis-of-faith is accelerated by an encounter with an environmental activist beset by hopelessness and anger.
Tollers ensuing relationship with that mans wife (Amanda Seyfried), as well as the leader of a local mega-church (Cedric the Entertainer), forms the basis of Schraders rigorously asceticand occasionally expressionisticfilm, which is guided by Tollers journal-entry narration about his fears and doubts. Formally exquisite and led by a tremendous performance from Hawke as a Travis Bickle-like country priest who cant quell the darkness within, its a spiritual inquiry made harrowing by both its mounting misery and its climactic ambiguity.

5THE RIDER
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The West is wild to its core in Chlo ZhaosThe Rider, a stunning verit drama about a young rodeo star facing an uncertain future after a catastrophic accident. Zhao amalgamates fact and fiction for her sophomore behind-the-camera effort, as her story is based, in part, on the life of actor Brady Jandreau (here cast alongside his own relatives and acquaintances in his native South Dakota). That life-art marriage lends bracing potency to this ode to frontier existence, as does the quiet magnetism of its twenty-something lead.
Nonetheless, the material is truly enlivened by the directors artful aesthetics, which balance intimate close-ups and at-a-remove panoramas of solitary figures set against expansive rural landscapesnever more so than in a late oncoming-storm shot that could double as an Old West painting. Meanwhile, multiple sequences in which Jandreau trains stallions provide a powerful, tactile sense of communion between man and beast, and in doing so, silently evoke the warring emotions battling for supremacy in the young bronco riders soul.

4YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
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Joaquin Phoenix reconfirms his status as his generations finest leading man withYou Were Never Really Here, a startling drama that cares less for straightforward thrills than for penetrating psychological intensity.
Barreling forward with both urgent momentum and fragmented lyricism (thanks to oblique edits and jarring flashbacks), the latest from Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher,We Need to Talk About Kevin) tracks a mentally scarred war vet (Phoenix) as he tries to rescue a senators young daughter from a child prostitution ring. Theres plenty of bloodshed throughout that underworld quest, yet Ramsays treatment of violence is anything but exploitative; rather, her masterful film resounds as a lament for the trauma of childhood abuse, which lingers long after adolescence has given way to adulthood.
Reminiscent ofTaxi Driverand energized by Phoenixs magnetic embodiment of masculine suffering and sorrow, its a gut-wrenching portrait of a volatile mans attempts to achieve some measure of solace from his inner demonssometimes via the use of a ball-peen hammer.

3LOVE AFTER LOVE
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The type of mature adult drama that mainstream American cinema rarely produces these days, writer-director Russell Harbaughs exceptional debut mires itself in a thicket of barbed emotions. In the wake of her husbands death, Suzanne (Andie MacDowell) strives to start anew, as does her son Nicholas (Chris ODowd)albeit, in the latters case, in ways that are as clumsy as they are ugly. Their concurrent efforts to find a way forward (romantically and otherwise) unfold with fractured grace and beauty, as Harbaugh plumbs profound depths via evocative compositional framing and a seductive editorial structure.
Complications soon pile on top of each other until practically no one is capable of breathing (save for during release-valve outbursts), with a piercing MacDowell and magnetic ODowd (in a staggeringly raw performance) digging deeply into their characters interior messes. What they ultimately discover are alternately unpleasant and inspiring truths about what we doand what it takesto survive in the aftermath of tragedy.

2ANNIHILATION
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Annihilationis the best sci-fi film in years, a mind-blowing trip into an inscrutable heart of darkness that marks writer-director Alex Garland as one of the genres true greats. Desperate to understand what happened to her soldier husband (Oscar Issac) on his last mission, a biologist (Natalie Portman) ventures alongside four comrades (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny) into a mysterious, and rapidly growing, hot zone known as the ?Shimmer.
What follows is an unsettling and finally hallucinatory tale of destruction and transformation, division and replicationdynamics that Garland posits as the fundamental building blocks of every aspect of existence, and which fully come to the fore during a climax of such surreal birth-death insanity that it has to be seen to be believed.
Apropos for a story about natures endless cycles of synthesis and mutation, it combines elements of numerous predecessors (Apocalypse Now,2001: A Space Odyssey,Stalker,The Thing) to create something wholly, frighteningly unique.

1MANDY
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The psychosexual hallucinatory heavy-metal grindhouse revenge saga of your cinematic dreams,Mandyis a midnight movie of mythic madness. Director Panos Cosmatoss wickedly deviant and humorous follow-up to 2011sBeyond the Black Rainbowconcerns a woodsman named Red (Nicolas Cage) whose wife, Mandy (Andrea Riseborough), is taken hostage at their secluded forest home by cultists led by crazed guru Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache). In the aftermath of tragedy, Red embarks on a rampage as trippy as it is brutal, as Cosmatos creates a pulpy atmosphere of pulsating LSD-fueled doom and gloom that envelops his protagonist as he descends into ever-more-depraved territory.
Torture, mayhem, and shadowy supernatural fiends factor into this orgiastic pulp, which featuresamong its many euphorically insane sightsits hero lighting a cigarette from a flaming decapitated head, a boozy bathroom freak-out, and the greatest big-screen chainsaw fight since 1986sThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Hovering over the action like a wide-eyed goth specter, Riseborough proves an enchanting object of black-magic desire. A maniacal Cage is equally transfixing in a turn of fantastical, often silent ferocity that culminates in a triumphant smile designedlike the gonzo film itselfto haunt your nightmares.

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12-09-2018, 03:49 PM
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I definitely agree with A Quiet Place being on the list. Horror is one of my favorite sub-genres of films, and I really enjoyed this one in particular. I actually went to see it twice, which is very rare for me, and even rarer when it's a horror film.

Another one I enjoyed was Searching. It follows the same, "oh this was all filmed from the perspective of a computer", so going into it I didn't have any expectations of it being good. However, it actually surprised me with how well it was put together. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but if you haven't seen it I would definitively recommend it.

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definitely agree with A Quiet Place being on the list. Horror is one of my favorite sub-genres of films, and I really enjoyed this one in particular. I actually went to see it twice, which is very rare for me, and even rarer when it's a horror film.

Another one I enjoyed was Searching. It follows the same, "oh this was all filmed from the perspective of a computer", so going into it I didn't have any expectations of it being good. However, it actually surprised me with how well it was put together. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but if you haven't seen it I would definitively recommend it.

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12-09-2018, 04:44 PM
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12-09-2018, 04:39 PM
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Damn your list really matches this one

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/mo...s-of-2018/

It's cool how people can have the same opinions like that
I didn't even think to look to see if it was stolen, that's low.

12-09-2018, 04:40 PM
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definitely agree with A Quiet Place being on the list. Horror is one of my favorite sub-genres of films, and I really enjoyed this one in particular. I actually went to see it twice, which is very rare for me, and even rarer when it's a horror film.

Another one I enjoyed was Searching. It follows the same, "oh this was all filmed from the perspective of a computer", so going into it I didn't have any expectations of it being good. However, it actually surprised me with how well it was put together. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but if you haven't seen it I would definitively recommend it.

You literally just copy/pasted what I said...

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I didn't even think to look to see if it was stolen, that's low.

Usually posts with a different color / font are copy pastes

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i really love 22NOVEMBER i think is the best movie ever

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29-10-2018, 07:37 PM
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Well, i really loved skyscraper and avengers infinity wars too. For horror movie the nun should definitely get the nod

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31-10-2018, 08:35 PM
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I love this thread! what a great share... definitely gonne download some of them

RE: 25 Best Movies of 2018 (So Far)

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YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, is killing it
november

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