Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Nomadland (2021)Nomadland (2021) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 29 Jan 2021A film of enormous skies and very little financial room to manoeuvre. Chloé Zhao lets Fern's practical routines and encounters with real van-dwellers complicate the romance of the open road. Frances McDormand gives the wandering a private weight; the result is the year's most affecting meeting of…0
  2. 2Minari (2020)Minari (2020) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Dec 2020Lee Isaac Chung makes the family farm feel like both a reasonable hope and a dangerously expensive bet. The children, church visits and awkward arrival of a grandmother give this Korean-American story its comic texture. Choose it for the way domestic details carry a whole argument about what a…0
  3. 3Another Round (2020)Another Round (2020) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 24 Sept 2020The pleasure of watching four Danish teachers loosen up is inseparable from the worry about where their experiment will lead. Mads Mikkelsen makes middle-aged disappointment physical before the famous release of the final dance. Thomas Vinterberg earns that exhilaration by refusing to treat drink…0
  4. 4The Father (2020)The Father (2020) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Dec 2020Rooms, faces and small domestic assumptions change before the viewer can get a secure hold on them. Florian Zeller makes dementia a problem of cinematic perspective rather than a condition observed from a safe distance. Anthony Hopkins's performance is devastating, but the disorientating structure…0
  5. 5Promising Young Woman (2020)Promising Young Woman (2020) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 13 Dec 2020Emerald Fennell uses candy colours, pop music and Carey Mulligan's unnervingly controlled performance to turn an apparent revenge fantasy into a test of everyday complicity. Its final manoeuvres are deliberately provocative. The boldness belongs in a survey of 2020 even if the plotting leaves you…0
  6. 6Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 26 Feb 2021Jasmila Žbanić follows a Bosnian UN interpreter trying to protect her family during the fall of Srebrenica. The tension comes from access, translation and decisions made behind doors, not battlefield spectacle. Jasna Đuričić keeps the film anchored in a mother's urgent calculations as institutional…0
  7. 7Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 13 Mar 2020An abortion trip becomes a closely observed portrait of what young women must negotiate without adult support. Eliza Hittman's attention to small transactions, tired bodies and an extraordinary questionnaire scene gives the film its force. Sidney Flanigan's restraint allows the emotion to emerge…0
  8. 8Time (2020)Time (2020) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 9 Oct 2020Garrett Bradley interweaves Fox Rich's home videos with newly filmed material to show a family living through a prison sentence that stretches across decades. The editing makes waiting tangible without reducing anyone to a case file. This is a short documentary with the emotional scope of a much…0
  9. 9The Truffle Hunters (2020)The Truffle Hunters (2020) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 25 Dec 2020Older men and their dogs search for prized truffles in northern Italy, filmed in carefully held compositions that make mud, kitchens and forest paths unexpectedly beautiful. The charm is real, but so is the pressure of a market built around their knowledge. A wonderfully specific alternative to a…0
  10. 10The Mole Agent (2020)The Mole Agent (2020) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Dec 2020A retirement-home investigation provides the comic disguise for Maite Alberdi's compassionate documentary about loneliness. The elderly recruit's awkward attempts at espionage gradually matter less than the relationships he forms. Its observational warmth makes the residents people to spend time…0