2019 Year End Report: Best Films of the Year 30 - 21

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So, now let’s officially start my ridiculously long year end recap – starting with the best films of the years, 30 -21 (noting that if it’s animated or a doc, and isn’t in the top 10, I let them rest of their own list).
 
Runners-up: Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhang-ke) is a kind of greatest hits package for one of China’s best filmmakers – not his best work, but excellent nonetheless. Booksmart (Olivia Wilde) is a hilarious high school comedy, and a poignant look at female friendship. Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler) isn’t as good as his first two films, but continues his streak of controversial, slow moving, violent films in a unique voice.John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum is perhaps the best pure action film Hollywood produced this year with one great set piece after another. Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood) would have easily been somewhere above – what works is as good as anything in late Eastwood – but the depiction of Kathy Scruggs mars the film badly. Shadow (Zhang Yimou) may not have been quite the film that Hero or House of Flying Daggers was – but it mainly a return to form for Yimou. For the second year in a row (since it opened in Toronto in late 2018, but in America in early 2019) I’ll add The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylon) which doesn’t reach the top levels of the Turkish master’s films, but occasionally still haunt me a year later.
 
30. Luce (Julius Onah)
Luce is a complex look at race and class in America that offers no easy answers, just troubling questions. The film stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. in the title role – a former African child soldier, adopted by an upper class white, liberal American couple (Naomi Watts and Tim Roth) – and has become an American success story. He is going to be valedictorian; he is a great athlete – everyone loves him. With one exception – his teacher (Octavia Spencer) who believes she can see through him, and maybe she can. The film is very well acted by the trio of leads (Harrison Jr., Watts and Spencer) – and the film plays with you, as you start to question Luce, and then question why you’re questioning him. The film seems to be designed to make white audiences uncomfortable – and never let us settle done. Based on the stage play, the film has opened things up a little – but does what great theatre can do – inspire conversation, and disturb you to the core.
 
29. Monos (Alejandro Landes)
Monos is a very odd film – a movie set in Columbia, for the first half on a beautiful, muddy mountaintop, the second half deep the jungle – about a group of child soldiers who work for some sort of “organization” whose job is to watch over an American hostage (Julianne Nicholson). Landes’ film has an odd tone – a great, very strange score by the wonderful Micah Levi helps set the stage from how weird it will be. The film is about these kids, trapped in a world of adult conflicts, which they don’t really understand and will only lead to more and more violence. The film is about group dynamics – how this group of kids would probably be okay by themselves, but in this group only bad things are going to happen. This film didn’t quite get the attention it deserved this year – but it’s a quiet stunner, whose reputation will grow.
 
28. Ad Astra (James Gray)
James Gray’s Ad Astra is a sci-fi film and it has all the trappings of a space film – but it touches on much deeper themes than many other films of its kind do. It does have all the trappings of a space adventure – as Brad Pitt’s character goes from Earth to the moon, and then off to Mars and beyond in search of his absent father. There are exciting sequences – the moon pirates for example. But what it’s really about is about men’s inability to connect – to be closed off emotionally, and the complicated relationships they have with their often absent fathers. It can read on that very personal level – but it can also been read as something larger – and Ingmar Bergman film in space about the silence of God. The film is very quiet and slow – not an adventure all the way through – but a quiet and introspective one – and one I think will likely continue to grow in my mind over the years.
 
27. Transit (Christian Petzold)
I have been thinking about Christian Petzold’s Transit since seeing it at TIFF back in 2018. It is a modern film, set in France in 2018 during the ongoing refugee crisis, but adapted from a book written during Nazi occupation during WWII – and changes almost nothing about it. The effect is strange – a film that is both timely, and out of time, at the same moment. It’s a film about how the more things change, the more they stay the same. The plot is based on coincidences and contrivances – the main character who is pretending to be a dead writer in order to escape, who ends up falling for the dead writer’s wife, who refuses to leave until he arrives, etc. The film is classic melodrama in its way – it may remind you of Casablanca to a certain extent – but it arrives at a place of true emotional weight. I don’t think it’s quite the film Phoenix was for Petzold – but it’s closer than I thought when I first saw it. All this time later, I’m still thinking about it.
 
26. Diane (Kent Jones)
I know there are some who think of Kent Jones’ Diane is more of a performance piece for Mary Kay Pace than anything else. To be fair, Pace’s performance is truly remarkable – the career best work of one of the great character actresses in recent years. And yet, Jones’ film is deep and wise in many ways – the ways that even apparently selfless acting can be selfish in its own way – those secrets we don’t really want to talk about, and how they shaped our lives. And how, right down to the end, our minds are working on things that don’t really matter. On the surface, Diane certainly is a performance piece for Pace – but it really is a deep and profound film in its own right as well.
 
25. Genesis (Philippe Lesage)
Now that Xavier Dolan has kind of lost his footing, my vote for best young voice from Quebec cinema easily goes to Phillippe Lesage. His sophomore film isn’t quite as good as his debut (the remarkable The Demons, which I also caught up with this year) – Genesis is a strange coming of age story about three kids in very different circumstances. There is Guillaume (Theodore Pellerin) a gay teenager in a boarding school who is struggling with that reality, and his older half-sister Charlotte (Noee Abita) in college, drifting from one disappointing boyfriend to the next. After a shocking incident three quarters of the way through, the film changes gears completely – becomes a quasi-sequel to The Demons, concentrating on a rather sweet story of a younger kid and his crush at summer camp – before all the messiness that has befallen the older characters. Lesage has a unique view on coming-of-age movies – The Demons is almost horror film, this one a little calmer. But Lesage deserves all the attention that is going to Dolan right now – and this film kind of disappeared when it came out in America briefly this year. Track it down.
 
24. High Life (Claire Denis)
The strangest sci-fi film of the year is clearly Claire Denis’ space journey to nowhere. It is a film about a group of criminals, whose sentence is to be research subjects on a space journey – they assume they’re coming back to earth at some point, but they aren’t. Instead, they are drifting forever. The film flashes back and forth in time – starting with Robert Pattison and a baby, and then flashing back to the rest of the prisoners, and how they ended up in the haunting shots of them floating into space. The movie is another example of just how daring and good Robert Pattinson can be as an actor. But the entire ensemble goes for broke as well – particularly Juliette Binoche as a doctor who crosses many lines, and that doesn’t even include her trips to the room known as the Fuck Box. Denis is one of the most interesting, daring filmmakers in the world – and High Life is one of her strangest, best films to date.
 
23. The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
Lulu Wang’s deeply humane The Farewell is one of the best movies I have ever seen in depicting an extended family. The movie, about a Chinese family, all returning back to China to say goodbye to their beloved mother/grandmother who they believe is dying – even though they won’t tell her that – The Farewell is filtered through the character based on Wang, played wonderfully by Awkafina in a sensitive performance, trying to merge her American culture experience with the Chinese one. But what makes The Farewell so special is the depiction of this large extended family – coming from all over the world, back. It is about those petty disagreements and squabbles that exist in every family, and that people can never quite get over. The film is deeply emotional – the final shot of Nai is a heartbreaker – and funny and deeply personal. I don’t like the final scene in the movie – but other than that, this is a wonderful film.
 
22. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
Rian Johnson’s murder mystery – which is only a throwback on the surface, as it has very contemporary issues on its mind – is one of the year’s great entertainments. A very rich family gathers for the patriarch’s 85thbirthday – which ends in the middle of the night with his apparent suicide, even though they all may have had a motive to kill him. Enter a brilliant P.I. of great renown – played wonderfully by Daniel Craig – and you have the ingredients you need for a closed box murder mystery. Johnson and his amazing cast have a blast with the material – the film is fun and funny throughout, and navigates all its twists and turns with intelligence and wit – but the film has more on its mind than just that, which is why Ana de Armas’ performance and character is the key to the entire film. The film may be a blunt instrument – but dammit if it isn’t a lot of fun. 
 
21. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller)
It would have been much easier to make a standard issue biopic about Mr. Rogers that audiences could have wrapped themselves in like a warm blanket. Inside what Marielle Heller and company did was something far trickier – it’s not really a biopic at all, but rather a story in which Mr. Rogers plays a supporting role – and sometimes a frustrating one. It is the Mr. Rogers film made for people like its real main character – a cynical journalist played by Mathew Rhys – whose first reaction when he meets Mr. Rogers is to wonder if the guy can possibly be for real. As Rogers, Tom Hanks was the only logical choice for the role, and he ends up giving one his best, most complex performances. His Rogers can be sometimes a little creepy, sometimes frustrating – as he clearly just doesn’t answer questions he doesn’t want to answer. It is a portrait of a man with tremendous self- control – someone who has the feelings the rest of us do, but is able to control them. You can see them seep out in interesting ways however. On top of that, Heller makes some daring choices in her direction – which brings the film into some strange, weird places. If you thought this film may be too saccharine for you, you’d be wrong.


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