2015 poll

[Lencho of the Apes]

Choose your favorite films from 2015 (according to IMDb).

– Each person votes for up to 20 movies. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number, if you're enthusiastic about fewer than twenty.
– Do not rank the films except the number 1, it gets two points..

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible so that others may use them for recommendations. You may, of course, revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline.

Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum will not be counted.

Deadline for 2015 lists will be Thursday, April 1st at approximately 5 PM Pacific Time.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Seen and didn't hate:

Almacenados/Warehoused - Jack Zagha Kababie
Bulanti/Nausea - Zeki Demirkubuz
La Calle De La Amargura/Bleak Street - Arturo Ripstein
Eisenstein In Guanajuato - Peter Greenaway
La la La At Rock Bottom - Nobuhiro Yamashita
Santa Teresa & Historias - Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
The VVitch - Robert Eggers

and maybe
Evil Games - Adrian Garcia Bogliano

Extensive annotated watchlist in the usual place.

[rischka]

the assassin

homeland iraq: year zero
blackhat
bulanti
forget-me-not
tangerine
baahubali
spl:2
carol
taxi
mad max: fury road
i promise you anarchy

gotta think about the rest. to watch

behemoth
cemetery of splendor
kaili blues
journey to the shore
crumbs
no home movie
right now, wrong then
vertigo sea
birdboy
eisenstein in guanajuato

[greennui]

Kid (Julio Bressane)
Blackhat (Michael Mann)
A Century of Energy (Manoel de Oliveira)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (Abbas Fahdel)
Anapeson (Francesco Dongiovanni)
Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (Evangelia Kranioti)
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)
American Reflexxx (Alli Coates)
The Art of Flying (Jan van Ijken)
I, Dalio (Mark Rappaport)
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (Mark Rappaport)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
Tangerine (Sean Baker)
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin (Various)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski)
A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley)
Kaili Blues (Gan Bi)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)

[DT.]

1. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
 
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
Baahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli)
Blood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio)
Carol (Todd Haydnes)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway)
Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
Inside Out (Pete Docter)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Love (Gaspar Noe)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
Office (Johnnie To)
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
Son of Saul (László Nemes)
 
Want to watch:
 
Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
Behemoth (Zhao Liang)
Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
Chronic (Michel Franco)
Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski)
Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée)
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
Equals (Drake Doremus)
Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas)
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (Abbas Fahdel)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier)
The Measure of a Man (Stéphane Brizé)
Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn (Juichiro Yamasaki)
The Sea of Trees (Gus Van Sant)
Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
Tag (Sion Sono)
Trap (Brillante Mendoza)
The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski)
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)

[sally]

teensy list

cosmos (zulawski + gombrowicz ♥)
le saphir de saint-louis (guerin)
bulanti
right now wrong then
eisenstein in guanajuato
john from (nicolau)
histoire de judas
the treasure (porumboiu)
a century of energy (MdO)
the vanity tables of douglas sirk

to watch
the other guerin, straub, marguerite & julien, bressane, iosseliani, maddin, to's office, lost and beautiful (marcello) blackhat, malgre la nuit, in the shadow of women, duchess of warsaw, mountains may depart, detective byomkesh bakshy!, the assassin, murmur of the hearts and loads more...

[nrh]

sanchu uprisinig: voices at dawn (juichiro yamasaki)
visits, or memories and confessions (manoel de oliveira)
spl 2 (soi cheang)
cemetery of splendor (apichatpong weerasethakul)
deux remi deux (pierre leon)
forget me not (kei horie)
blackhat (michael mann)
baahubali (ss rajamouli)
no home movie (chantal akerman)
afternoon (tsai ming-liang)
i (shankar)
o kadhal kanmani (mani ratnam)
arabian nights (miguel gomes)
office (johnnie to)
murmur of the hearts (sylvia chang)
chevalier (athena rachel tsangari)
visaaranai (vetrimaaran)
detective byomkesh bakshy! (dibakar banerjee)
martyrdom & pleasure (jose celestino campusano)
experimenter (michael almereyda)

[Silga]

[provisional list deleted]

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

never heard of this year

But, be that as it may, I've found my way to these five votes:

1. Silk Tatters,"NEC SPE NEC METU”: Brigadoon (Gina Telaroli)
I, Dalio (Mark Rappaport)
Our Stars (Mark Rappaport)
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (Mark Rappaport)
Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow)

[Roscoe]

45 YEARS (Haigh)
CAROL (Haynes)
THE WITCH (Eggers)
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Maddin)
IN JACKSON HEIGHTS (Wiseman)

I'll look around and see if there's more -- but there's a lot of highly acclaimed stuff from this year that I detest with a bright flaming hatred.

[Silga]

stuff from this year that I detest with a bright flaming hatred.

For me it's Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée). A strong contender for the worst film of the decade.

[niminy-piminy]

ballot...
1. The Silence of Ani (Francis Alÿs)
Is Everyone Right? Karel Floss and the Others. (Helena Všetečková)
LSD Made in ČSSR (Pavel Křemen)
The Czech Way (Martin Kohout)
Moravia, Beautiful Land (Petr Šprincl)
On the Water (Martin Ryšavý)
The Devastated Land (Emmanuel Lefrant)
Up to the Sky and Much Much More (Barbara Meter)
Vilanova Artigas: The Architect and the Light (Laura Artigas, Pedro Gorski)
Anapeson: Sleepless (Francesco Dongiovanni)
Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño)
Strata of Image (Lois Patiño)
Black Apples (Andrew Kötting)
2015 Rolling (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Amplification of Process - Walking (Mariam Eqbal)
Dreams Rewired (Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode)
The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal (Manuel Mozos)
Intimacy Is Hair in the Drain (Hanna Chetwin)
Mütter (Mikel Guillen)
Karl-Marx-Alle (Azucena Losana)

in the last few yrs, logged (12!)...
BEHIND THE TORCHLIGHT (Emily Drummer)
LOST IN MUNICH (Petr Zelenka)
SLAVNÉ A KRÁSNÉ VILY: SCHMELOWSKÉHO VILA (Zdeněk Tyc)
THE NEW SPECIES (Kateřina Karhánková)
SPEARHUNTER (Luke Poling, Adam Roffman)
MORAVIA, BEAUTIFUL LAND (Petr Šprincl) https://letterboxd.com/film/morava-krasna-zem/
KAREL ZEMAN: ADVENTURER IN FILM (Tomáš Hodan)
EAVES APART (Sebastian Buerkner)
THE RAPTURE (Michael Fleming)
NEW MOON (Gerd De Kinderen)
PRINTBIRD (Gerd De Kinderen)
AMONG TREES (Pavla Baštanová)
I CAN’T SWIM (Pavla Baštanová)
OVERGAMES (Lutz Dammbeck)
AESOPS, HOLD THE LINE (Ondřej Moravec)
ANAPESON: SLEEPLESS (Francesco Dongiovanni)
SKEPTICAL SEVENTH SUN (Antonia Kuo)
WAVES (Sebastian Wiedemann)
THE WORLD WELCOMES FAME - SLAGSMÅLSKLUBBEN (Alexis Burlat)
SELF-PORTRAIT (Stefano Miraglia)
ONE MINUTE ART HISTORY (Cao Shu)
MARIA LASSNIG, IT IS THE ART, THAT… (Sepp Dreissinger, Heike Schäfer)
THE CENTURY OF LE CORBUSIER (Juliette Cazanave)
EMBARGO (Johann Lurf)
THE RED CENTER (Yves-Marie Mahé)
ANONYMOUS MULTITUDES (Manuel De Landa)
THE SILENCE OF ANI (Francis Alÿs)
SCREEN TEST 1 (SELF-PORTRAIT) (Scott Fitzpatrick)
VILANOVA ARTIGAS: THE ARCHITECT AND THE LIGHT (Laura Artigas, Pedro Gorski)
WAYWARD FRONDS (Fern Silva)
I LIKE MARK ROTHKO (Ray Koh)
DONKEY RIDING (Simon Liu)
KARL-MARX-ALLE (Azucena Losana)
TURIN (Rhayne Vermette)
PATTERN INSTRUMENTAL (Mariam Eqbal)
AMPLIFICATION OF PROCESS - WALKING (Mariam Eqbal)
NOTES FROM THE INTERIOR (Benjamin Balcom)
SERIAL NO. 2953 (Orit Ishay)
EAT MY SHIT (Eduardo Casanova)
HELIOPHILIA #7 (Michal Kindernay)
ANOTHER TRIP TO THE MOON (Ismail Basbeth)
CEREMONIES (Robert Cahen)
THE CZECH FILM AVANT-GARDE (Libor Nemeškal)
BIOTOP (Adéla Kudlová)
THE LOBSTER (Yorgos Lanthimos)
THE EVENT (Sergei Loznitsa)
WHERE IS THE JUNGLE? (Iván Castiñeiras Gallego)
THE GLORY OF FILMMAKING IN PORTUGAL (Manuel Mozos)
THE DEVASTATED LAND (Emmanuel Lefrant)
REMEMBERING 90 (Barbora Berezňáková)
THE EPIC MOVING OF PAVEL SKÁLA TO THE FREE LAND OF LIBERLAND (Ondřej Šálek)
MEDIUM GREY (Greta Stocklassa)
THE STILL LIFE OF VERA • POHLEDY NA VĚRU BECHYŇOVOU (Greta Stocklassa)
BUTTONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Jan Šípek)
LSD MADE IN ČSSR (Pavel Křemen) https://letterboxd.com/film/lsd-made-in-cssr/
LOVE AT THE MONASTERY (Jan Rendl)
THE PERPETRATOR AND THE BYSTANDER (Nikola Krutilová, Jan Kačena)
CHI-RAQ (Spike Lee)
I DON'T BELONG ANYWHERE: THE CINEMA OF CHANTAL AKERMAN (Marianne Lambert)
MOST OF THE SOULS THAT LIVE HERE (Igor Buharov, Ivan Buharov)
THE CZECH WAY (Martin Kohout) https://letterboxd.com/film/ceska-cesta/ (imdb 2015)
CROWDS (Geert Mul)
QUANTUM (Flatform)
UP TO THE SKY AND MUCH MUCH MORE (Barbara Meter)
IS EVERYONE RIGHT? KAREL FLOSS AND THE OTHERS. (Helena Všetečková) https://letterboxd.com/film/vsichni-maj ... -ti-druzi/ (imdb 2015)

in a more distant past, watched (3!)...
THE LAST SCREENING OF JIŘÍ KORDA • POSLEDNÍ FILM PROMÍTAČE JIŘÍHO KORDY (Jaroslav Kratochvíl)
DISPORTING WITH A SHADOW (Paul Clipson)
TRAJECTIONS (Paul Clipson)
COME ON (Paul Clipson)
MÜTTER (Mikel Guillen)
THREE BUTTONS • LES 3 BOUTONS (Agnès Varda)
ON THE WATER (Martin Ryšavý) https://letterboxd.com/film/na-vode/
JAN PATOČKA ABOUT THE SOUL AND POLITICS (Boris Jankovec)
THE PERPETRATOR AND THE BYSTANDER • ČLOVĚK SI SÁM SE SEBOU VYSTAČÍ, RESPEKTIVE NEVYSTAČÍ (Jan Kačena, Nikola Krutilová)
THE PLACE (Khin Khin Hsu)
DREAMS REWIRED • MOBILISIERUNG DER TRÄUME (Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode)

watched for the poll (5!)...
STRATA OF THE IMAGE (Lois Patiño)
NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño)
PERPETUUM MOBILE (Piotr Kamler)
POROSITÉ (Tinne Zenner)
5/ SON OF THE LOVELY CAPITALISM (Suranga Deshapriya Katugampala)
I HATE YOU (Chung Cheng-Hsu)
MAHONIE (Emily Lefebvre)
SICK BUILDING SYNDROME (Chen Chun-tien, Yang Chen-yu)
INTIMACY IS HAIR IN THE DRAIN (Hanna Chetwin)
10/ 2015 ROLLING (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
HOURS (Scott Barley)
COMBAT (Andrew Kötting)
BLACK APPLES (Andrew Kötting)
LIMBO LIMBO TRAVEL (Zsuzsanna Kreif, Borbála Zétényi)
15/ THE SLEEPWALKER (Theodore Ushev)
POSTINDUSTRIAL (Boris Pramatarov)
A PETTY MORNING CRIME (Asparuh Petrov)
MILKMAID (Ivan Bogdanov)
NATURAL NOVEL IN 8 CHAPTERS (Milen Vitanov)
20/ 100% MOOD (Dmitry Yagodin)
ODEON (Boris Despodov)
CBDS (CZECH BORDER DEFENCE SOCIETY) (Marie Lukáčová)
MACHINIC PHYLUM (Guli Silberstein)
ORBITING (Yoshiki Nishimura)
25/ BLAST (Konstantinos Vasileiou)
DISPLACEMENT (Anders Weberg)
THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION WAS CAUSED BY THE SUN (Anton Vidokle)
HELLO I AM DAVID! (Cosima Lange)
DREAM ENGLISH KID 1964-1999 AD (Mark Leckey)
30/ MONKEY (Shen Jie)
4MIN15 IN THE DEVELOPER (Moïa Jobin-Paré)
TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART (James Crump)

watchlist...
ETTRICK (Jacques Perconte)
BACK TRACK (Virgil Widrich)
DON JUAN (Jerzy Sladkowski)
BY OUR SELVES (Andrew Kötting)
ANY VIRGIN LEFT ALIVE? (Bertrand Mandico)
SPECTRAL LANDSCAPE (Luis Macías)
MAHONIE (Emily Lefebvre)
BENDING TO EARTH (Rosa Barba)
ARCHITECTURE (Ulu Braun)
ZAGREB CONFIDENTIAL - IMAGINARY FUTURES (Darko Fritz)
THE OLD JEWISH CEMETERY (Sergei Loznitsa)
THE INVISIBLE CLOAK (Moritz Uebele)
HOUSE OF PAINTINGS (Amit Dutta)
PRELUDES (Nathaniel Dorsky)
HIATUS (Ericka Beckman)
CRIPPLED SYMMETRIES (Beatrice Gibson)
CINÉMA CONCRET (Takashi Makino)
ZLATÉ PIESKY ROCKET LAUNCH (Josef Dabernig)
BRONCO'S HOUSE (Mark Jenkin)

[niminy-piminy]

SPANISH NEW EXTREMITY...

EAT MY SHIT (Eduardo Casanova)
https://letterboxd.com/film/eat-my-shit/

https://vimeo.com/136592330

[therouxxx]

O Kadhal Kanmani (Mani Ratnam)
Blackhat (Michael Mann)
Chi-raq (Spike Lee)
Cinderella (Kenneth Branagh)
Creed (Ryan Coogler)

Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam-Taylor Johnson)
Forget Me Not (Kei Horie)
Happy Hour (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
I (Shankar)
The Intern (Nancy Myers)

Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
Piku (Shoojit Sircar)

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali)
Tanu Weds Manu Returns (Aanand L. Rai)
Visaranai (Vetri Maaran)

to see - Bitter Lake, Bulanti, Drishyam, Field Niggas, Magic Mike XXL

[greennui]

De Oliveira's final film, 84 years after his first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yr8hEyFYcg

[sally]

i'm not planning on watching it again but i remember once seeing a really long japanese film where at one point they go to this, sort of wellbeing class and they all end up on their knees listening to each others intestines gurgle.

is that happy hour? that scene pops into my head fairly often for some reason but i have no idea what films its from

also for everyone listing manoel de oliveira's Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (memories and confessions) imdb has that as.....1993?

[niminy-piminy]

MUST SEE FOR BIRD VOCALIZATION LOVERS!
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS DESIGNED TO IMITATE BIRDS

THE SILENCE OF ANI (Francis Alÿs)
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-silence-of-ani/

https://vimeo.com/141804238

[flip]

as with most recent years, my viewing has been really haphazard, lots to see, and i think i like a few things everyone else hates and hate a few things everyone else likes:

Lost in Munich (Petr Zelenka)

Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
Cemetery of Splendour (Achipatpong Weerasethakul)
Evolution (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
Dark in the White Light (Vimukthi Jayasundara)
Bad Night (Chris Riedell/Nick Riedell)
Blackhat (Michael Mann)
The Case of Hana and Alice (Shunji Iwai)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
The Revenant (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Brooklyn (John Crowley)
Being Flat (Quentin Dupieux)
Prophecy (Yoshihiro Nakamura)
Pitch Perfect 2 (Elizabeth Banks)

[therouxxx]

is that happy hour? that scene pops into my head fairly often for some reason but i have no idea what films its from

it definitely is. If I recall correctly the nurse finds a flyer and invites her friends to said workshop

[brian d]

the top two are the best, the rest are... fine...

cosmos (zulawski)
far from the madding crowd (vinterberg)
the assassin (hou)
bone tomahawk (zahler)
the lobster (lanthimos)
eisenstein in guanajuato (greenaway)
the witch (eggers)
chevalier (tsangari)
summertime (corsini)
evolution (hadzihalilovic)

[lineuphere]

Some things I liked and some things in my queue:

Arabian Nights
Forget Me Not
Embrace of the Serpent
Kaili Blues
Happy Hour
Lowlife Love
Son of Saul
Almacenados
Sleeping Giant
Ce sentiment de l'été
Tab Hunter Confidential
Love and Peace
Bloed, Zweet en Tranen
Cemetery of Splendor
Last Day of Freedom
The Tribe
Edmond
The Forbidden Room
Holding the Man
Carol
Tangerine
The Art of Flying

[Umbugbene]

1. The Martian (Scott)
2. Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Greenaway)
3. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong)
4. Sicario (Villeneuve)
5. Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Cogitore)
6. John From (Nicolau)
7. Umimachi Diary (Kore-eda)
8. Queen of the Desert (Herzog)
9. Taxi (Panahi)
10. Cool Apocalypse (Smith)
11. Victoria (Schipper)
12. Thithi (Reddy)

[ofrene]

quite possibly my favorite movie year of 2010s..

like

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero
Happy Hour
In Jackson Heights
Carol
The Assassin
Mad Max: Fury Road
No Home Movie
Journey to the Shore
Taxi
Wake (Subic)
World of Tomorrow
Bridge of Spies
Right Now, Wrong Then
45 Years
The Forbidden Room
Inside Out
In the Shadow of Women
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

and some other stuff

A Century of Energy
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One
Cemetery of Splendor
Heart Attack
Land and Shade
Listen to Me Marlon
Live to Live
Lost and Beautiful
Magic Mike XXL
No No Sleep
Something Between Us
SPL 2
Tangerine
The Walk
The Witch

etc...

[greennui]

also for everyone listing manoel de oliveira's Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (memories and confessions) imdb has that as.....1993?

Shot in 1982, this movie was released only in 2015, after the director's death. Director Manoel de Oliveira left instructions that this film be released only after his death. However, it was screened at the Portuguese Cinemathèque in 1993, during a retrospective of the director's work.

[sally]

is that happy hour? that scene pops into my head fairly often for some reason but i have no idea what films its from

it definitely is. If I recall correctly the nurse finds a flyer and invites her friends to said workshop

THANK YOU!!! that's been driving me crazy for ages

[sally]

also for everyone listing manoel de oliveira's Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (memories and confessions) imdb has that as.....1993?

Shot in 1982, this movie was released only in 2015, after the director's death. Director Manoel de Oliveira left instructions that this film be released only after his death. However, it was screened at the Portuguese Cinemathèque in 1993, during a retrospective of the director's work.

right so are we counting it as 2015 or not? need to know because of course will watch if we are

also does anyone have sanchu uprising handy?

[Roscoe]

stuff from this year that I detest with a bright flaming hatred.

For me it's Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée). A strong contender for the worst film of the decade.

For me it's THE REVENANT and that FURY ROAD foolishness. THE REVENANT is one of the low points of a lifetime of moviegoing.

[oscarwerner]

1. Carol (Todd Haynes)-my top hit
---------------------------
Other films :
2. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
3. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
4. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
5. Son of Saul (László Nemes)
6. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
7. Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
8. From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas)
9. The Brand New Testament (Jaco Van Dormael)
10. Tale of tales (Matteo Garrone)
11. 45 years (Andrew Haigh)
12. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
13. The Martian (Ridley Scott)
14. The Club (Pablo Larraín)
15. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
16. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
17. Anomalisa (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)
18. Love (Gaspar Noe)
19. Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway)
20. Standing Tall (Emmanuelle Bercot)

[rischka]

also for everyone listing manoel de oliveira's Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (memories and confessions) imdb has that as.....1993?

Shot in 1982, this movie was released only in 2015, after the director's death. Director Manoel de Oliveira left instructions that this film be released only after his death. However, it was screened at the Portuguese Cinemathèque in 1993, during a retrospective of the director's work.

right so are we counting it as 2015 or not? need to know because of course will watch if we are

also does anyone have sanchu uprising handy?

i'll have it shortly hopefully!

[greennui]

Carol is prob my biggest disappointment of the year, to me it just felt like a cold and laboured Sirk pastiche.

I was really into Son of Saul as I was watching it but it left me with the sourest aftertaste. Maybe cuz it felt like The Holocaust: The VR game?

The Lobster is genuinely one of my worst film experiences ever.

Right, that's enough whinging for a month.
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