Much-admired directorial debut by Frances Ha’s Greta Gerwig, starring Saoirse Ronan as a high-schooler looking to escape dreary California for the Big Apple. Magisterial (and possibly final) turn from Daniel Day Lewis as a postwar British fashion designer, directed with customary grandeur by Paul Thomas Anderson. It’s a darkly hilarious yet horrifying portrait of what goes on behind the scenes of pleasant suburbia. Yorgos Lanthimos’s films are not for everyone, but if you have a taste for bleak, dark humor, then The Killing of a Sacred Deer is for you. Politically inflected horror film featuring Daniel Kaluuya as the African American boyfriend whose trip to meet his Caucasian girlfriend’s family becomes a gruesome nightmare. The Killing of a Sacred Deer A surgeon never kills a patient. Read the full reviewįollow-up to Tangerine by director Sean Baker, here offering a kids’-eye-view of unconventional family life in a motel on the outskirts Walt Disney World. Beautiful, sundrenched romance directed by A Bigger Splash’s Luca Guadagnino, chronicling the affair a teenager (Timothée Chalamet) and a visiting American grad student (Armie Hammer) in 1980s Italy.

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