There are, thankfully, a few other films championing black voices poised to make a run for awards this fall. I’m most looking forward to Moonlight (10/21), directed. Story by Jason Hanna; video by Nick Scott and Lacey Russell, CNN. Updated 8:32 PM ET, Fri October 28, 2016. This is a list of films produced and/or distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The Best Films of 2. So Far . I highly. Tom Tykwer's adaptation of Dave Eggers's. The Coen brothers' star- studded. Hollywood satire . And both of. Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2. And then see . Both of the films were able to place me square.

They're both head- first filmmaking at its best. In my eyes, it’s been a far stronger year for documentaries.

With Sundance 2. 01. I can also say. that the film year is just getting started, with a few more must- see titles to. The 1. 00 minute film is at once a moving portrait of matriarchal. American culture, and masterpiece. The term applies not only.

Shane Black but as a badge of pride. It's the best thing Ryan Gosling's done in years, and he and.

Russell Crowe work beautifully together. I'd watch a dozen more movies with the. Gosling's daughter (Angourie. Rice, every bit as good as the leads) plays Penny to their collective Inspector. Gadget. The filmmaker's fascination with telling love stories through the. It is a. majestic and funny coming- of- age story complimented with a soundtrack that.

Advertisement. OLIVIA COLLETTEThe only film I want to talk about is “The Witch.” Not just here and now, but possibly for the rest of. For one, I can't help but admire the incredible risk the filmmakers took. It's the tiny cast of actors; the. Black Philip's whisper; and how the tension gradually closes in on. Thomasin. Of course, that leaves room for the film to blow up in other areas. Caleb's dramatic death. A bit like “The Babadook,” “The Witch” is a very female.

Thomasin goes from being an innocent child to a. Robert Eggers. really understands the structure of folktales, which gives him the prowess to. He knows that at their core, they were stories told by and to. If this is how horror works now, more please! MARK DUJSIKIt only took 2.

Isao. Takahata's beautifully animated . Two Hollywood sequels, . Grief is also at the heart of . The computer- animated . The ferocious, relentless . The highlight of the year. John Carney's . The film may only be about .

The images of deserts and empty rooms. Movies For Apple Ipod Fahrenheit 11 (2017). But. Akerman was an artist driven to wanderlust; .

Wang. gives the spectator very little context; his closing credit crawl would be a. The. hospital looks worse than many prisons; it seems to combine the old Soviet. American tendency to allow the mentally ill to commit petty crimes. Yet there's. more hope and resistance in Wang's film than you'll find in . It ends. with a male couple holding hands. In the inhuman world of .

My second favorite happens. Yorgos Lanthimos'. Next is the. spellbinding thriller, .

Rounding out my top. Number six is Nanfu Wang's courageous documentary, . Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush's . I also loved Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's .

Dylan Gelula. delivers another of the year's finest performances in Karem Sanga's sublime. There have been good and maybe one or two great films along the way, but. It doesn't say good things that two of the best movies released in the. U. S. But because the world he's created is so austere and. Farrell is at his most vulnerable here, and he has great. Rachel Weisz and Lea Seydoux as the two strong women who help. Give it a try and dig in.

Advertisement. NELL MINOWWhen “Everybody Wants. Some!!” was described as “a spiritual sequel to “Dazed and Confused,” I was. It has all that but it reminded me more of writer/director Richard.

Linklater’s more existentially ambitious films like “Waking Life” (still my. Before” trilogy, and “Boyhood.” Though like “Dazed and Confused” it takes its. Texas university), “Everybody Wants. Some!!” (two- exclamation points) starts upending our assumptions right from the. Aren’t all college movies. But the women are not objectified. And I loved the way the guys had.

The. malleability of the various personas they were trying on as they were discovering. And the exploration of the competitive. I loved the discussion of the possibly. And I love the so.

Wyatt Russell may. Matthew Mc. Conaughey in “Dazed. Confused.”  OMER MOZAFFARBest Superhero Film: “Captain. America: Civil War”Marvel is far ahead of not only DC, but all of the. They make everyone else look. SHEILA O’MALLEYThere are other films I have loved, and I could write a. The Nice Guys” and why it’s one of my favorites—but choose to.

Advertisement. Three of the most impressive and memorable films thus far in. Each film was low- budget. Each film has a careless disregard for preconceived ideas, and.

The movies are so fearless, in fact. Who makes these rules? Why not break them all, and see what happens? But surrounding the. These are thrilling films because they stroll into a landscape of accepted clich. I. won't be participating in that. Let me show you something else.

Here. they are, in order of my preference: Radu Jude's . Among other things, . The dingy Moscow. NYC- based remake that's bound.

Advertisement. Luca Guadagnino's . Just like that film, the new one is ritzy, high- end trash—a cheap.

John Goodman should scoop a. Kathy Bathes- shaped Oscar for his supreme role as a psychopathic captor (or is. To every silver lining a cloud.

A new Terrence Malick is treated like a. America's pre. A new Joachim Trier has Jesse Eisenberg. But there's no qualifier needed to discuss a new Robert Greene. Robert is. trying to do something in non.

He's trying to be its Ingmar Bergman, its Alejandro. Jodorowsky, its Pasolini. And he's succeeding. He's delivering non.

The ever game and always. Kate Lyn Sheil slowly goes off the rails while preparing to. Christine Chubbuck, the Floridian journalist who shot. TV. Greene doles out just enough info for you to wonder how.

The grey. area between real and unreal is Greene's home and everyone owes it to. He's doing more for non.

Unlike so many modern action movies, every time violence. Saulnier’s film, the film’s trajectory changes. Saulnier is such a. Filmmakers don’t get much more confident than Jeff Nichols. Midnight Special” is still my. Sundance). On its surface.

Nichols’ film is a traditional sci- fi adventure in the vein of John Carpenter’s. Starman.” Underneath that surface resonates a study of the bond between father.

It’s. unforgettable. Given it only played theatrically at film festivals and most. TV, I’m not counting ESPN’s “OJ: Made in America,” but it’s an essential, unbelievable. And if I counted in on a. Advertisement. Finally, I find that end- of- year reports often miss great. Royalty. Hightower in “The Fits”Ewan. Mc. Gregor in “Last Days in the Desert”Jack Reynor.

Sing Street”Susan. Sarandon in “The Meddler”Mary. Elizabeth Winstead in “1.

Cloverfield Lane”ALISSA WILKINSONThis year. But some of my best in- theater experiences so far. The Witch” and “Under the. Shadow”; high romantic farce in “The. Lobster” and “Love & Friendship”. The. Fits” and “Sunset Song”; the. Midnight Special”.

Hunt for. the Wilderpeople”; and probably the king of them all so far, “Hail, Caesar!” What a time to be. SUSAN WLOSZCZYNA“A Bigger Splash” — A heaping helping.

Sicilian- style. performed by a fabulously in- tune and often nude foursome consisting of Tilda. Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson and Matthias Schoenaerts—who has. Michael Fassbender as my favorite male import most likely to. I loved it to the moon and back with a side trip to. Mars. What’s not to like? And whoever. decided that the sloths should run the city’s Department of Motor Vehicles. Advertisement“Maggie’s Plan” — After a recent weepy.

Still Alice” and. Freeheld,” Julianne Moore reminds us how fiendishly funny she can be as a. Danish professor who masticates her words with an oddly clipped accent.

Shtupps Madeline Kahn’s. Lili in “Blazing Saddles.”“Hail, Caesar!” — Speaking of Mel. Brooks, I spent much of this Coen brothers’ sour love letter to . The former has colorful. Dead Kennedys “Nazi Punks F**k Off.”.

These films may have different goals and styles, but they share some qualities. Directed by Robert Eggers and Jeremy Saulnier, respectively, they unfold. Ipod Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 (2017) 2010. They tap into base fears. Neither Eggers nor Saulnier play by the. My favorite. performance of 2.

Tom Bennett, who played Sir James Martin in Whit.