Laurent Lafitte Ten Times

Nice little treat today thanks to GQ France -- some suave man photos of actor Laurent Lafitte! He first caught our eyes as the "next door neighbor" in Paul Verhoeven's tremendous 2016 Huppert-vehicle Elle -- and sidenote holy shit that movie's turning 10 this year -- although looking back I'd definitely seen him in things before then like Mathieu Kassovitz's The Crimson Rivers and Guillaume Canet's Tell No One (apprently he only works for sexy directors!). And since Elle I've seen Laurent in the unsettling apocalypse-ish flick School's Out in 2018 and last year's big-budget smash The Count of Monte Christo. Still I don't see shoots of him popping up too often so this is a treasure. Hit the jump for the rest...

More Shit For Sale

If these posts are too often and annoying now... well don't let me know. I don't care. I just really have too much shit and not enough money so I'm going to keep pushing the fact that y'all should be checking my eBay account for deals on physical media and the like often, as I'm constantly -- some might say obsessively -- updating it with new things to unload. Over the break I listed a lot, including most of the box-sets of T.V. series I'd been hanging onto -- I'd love to keep the entire Buffyverse in my cold dead hands but I just no longer have the space, alas. And yes if the sleaze of Paul Verhoeven's The 4th Man as seen in the above gif is more your cuppa that's available right now as well! There's something for everybody.

Quote of the Day

I think whenever there's an new movie from Luca Guadagnino coming out -- as there is this weekend with After the Hunt, reviewed right here by yours truly -- I end up doing about five "Quote of the Day" posts involving him, because he's not shy about giving interviews and saying things I enjoy hearing. Today he spoke to GQ (thx Mac) and there are several bits inside this single interview I could've shared -- he goes on about Showgirls being a masterpiece for god's sake! But I'm choosing the bit below where the interviewer asks him about something I very much wanted the answer to after seeing After the Hunt twice -- a framed poster of Pedro Almodovar's movie The Flower of My Secret is prominently displayed in one scene, and here's what he had to say about that:

"I think Alma loves that movie. I think Alma is a cosmopolitan. I think her and Frederick have been traveling the world a lot. You see that alongside the work of art that hangs in the apartment, that belongs to the heritage of the family of Frederick, there is a lot of contemporary international art that maybe Alma has bought around the world and bought. A very smart idea that Stefano developed in the set of the apartment. 

I think she loves that movie because I think she admires Pedro the filmmaker, but I think she really loved the character of Leocadia [in the movie]. I think Alma is drawn to Leocadia’s crisis. She is drawn to the idea that she also secrets herself. And at the same time, I think that she loves the form of that movie. In fact, she listens to the soundtrack. She plays Miles Davis' “Solea,” which is one of the pieces of music that is in that movie. And lastly, because every movie that I do is about the characters, but every character in the movie in a way reflects part of myself, I love that movie. And I love Pedro Almodovar. 

One of the great, great, great moments of my life was when we were at the premiere of Queer in Venice last year, and the movie finished and we had this beautiful reception from the audience in the theater. And I was so happy, and looking around and turning to say thank you to the people. And there, I saw Pedro, and that was amazing."

Twas Only a Moment For You

Okay yeah that's it, I'm off to NYFF screenings again. As I said last time I scampered off keep an eye on my socials, you'll be able to find me there (especially Bluesky). By the time I'm back... uhh Thursday morning... I'll have seen new movies by Claire Denis, Richard Linklater, Pietro Marcello, Lucretia Martel, Noah Baumbach, Bi Gan, Luca Guadagnino (!!!!) ... and Alexander Skarsgård's gay leather romance Pillion! I love the movies. Oh and as an aside keep an eye on Pajiba because my review of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another will also be dropping soon and that -- the movie and my review -- is not something you're gonna wanna miss. Anyway bye til later! And don't forget to celebrate this:

HAPPY 30 TO SHOWGIRLS

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— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Quote of the Day

Interview Magazine got writer-director Ari Aster to sit down and chat with Babygirl writer-director and former actress Halina Reijn, which isn't a combo I would've thought of but apparently they're friends. That said exactly what I wanted to happen happened in the course of their conversation, which is Aster brought up Paul Verhoeven because Reijn acted in Verhoeven's masterpiece Black Book. Anyway both Aster and Reijn both say a lot of great things about Verhoeven but this quote from Ari seems especially important to me in the wake of Eddington, a movie a lot of people definitely misunderstood:

"[Verhoeven]’s always risking being misconstrued. He has this really impish, ironic sensibility where he genuinely loves the genres that he’s working in. So he’s making these films that function absolutely as just straight genre films, and then at the same time they’re incredibly politically subversive. Satire is harder and harder to come by because people don’t really have the nerve for it. They end up wanting to just explain themselves to make sure that they’re understood, which is not how satire should work. It should risk being misunderstood. There have been a lot of films of his that were not understood upon release, and that must have been painful for him. But he never learned the wrong lesson from that. If anything, he doubled down."

As I off-handedly admitted in my review of Eddington I had to go back the movie a second time before writing my review because I could tell it was going to be an entirely different movie a second time through, and sure enough the tone that was knocking me off balance the first time fell completely into place on view two. After the above quote Aster brings up the confused initial reception to Starship Troopers, and I think that's a perfect comparison for Eddington -- basically I think people are going to be embarassed in twenty years for not seeing Eddington's brilliance, and I'm glad I squeezed myself through to the right side of history!

We Love to See a Queen Get Her Crown

Elizabeth Berkley got choked up tonight at the @AcademyMuseum talking about the LGBTQ community’s love of Showgirls 🥹 pic.twitter.com/k784kxyCJC

— eric (@MrEAnders) March 21, 2024

They screened Showgirls at the Academy Museum last night and as seen above Elizabeth Berkley introduced it and she got all choked up when calling out LGBTQ people as standing by her and the movie and we love to see it! Made me cry. So happy she's embraced the film too and that the world's finally come around (or at least the ones who get it) to it not just being a camp masterpiece -- which it is -- but also a genuinely perfect satire of the trash culture that is America. Nobody gets us like Verhoeven. And queer people.

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

Starship Troopers (1997)

Rasczak: All right, let's sum up. This year we explored the failure of democracy. How our social scientists brought our world to the brink of chaos. We talked about the veterans, how they took control and established the stability that has lasted for generations since. You know these facts, but have I taught you anything of value this year? You. Why are only citizens allowed to vote?

Student: It's a reward. Something the federation gives you for doing federal service.

Rasczak: No. Something given has no value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force my friends is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

I still can't believe that there were lots and lots of people who sat down and watched Starship Troopers in 1997 and didn't get that it was a deeply and hilariously funny anti-fascist satire. It felt like ages before people took this movie seriously! I mean... do people even take it seriously now? Do I just live in a bubble of my own making where this movie is one of the great films of our age? Well people should think that dammit! One day we will realize that Paul Verhoeven...

... (who's celebrating his 85th motherfucking birthday today!) has been one of The Greats. One of the most important filmmakers of our age. Someone able to make wildly entertaining popcorn flicks that were able to sneak deeply serious thoughts in between all of the great big beautiful tits and gore. A legend! Somebody smack that man on the bare rear and say thanks from us today...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Elle (2016)

Michèle: I'm very sorry for all you've been through.

Rebecca: Fortunately, I have faith. What's it for

if not to get through tough times.

An incredibly super duper happy 46th birthday to the actress Virginie Efira, who's managed to skyrocket to the ranks of one of our favorite working actresses in the six years since the movie quoted above. It wasn't that movie that did it -- that movie was obviously Huppert's show and then some (here's my review), although Efira did leave a mark in that scene (one that actually changed the way I viewed the entire movie). But no it was the next movie that Verhoeven made with her that did it -- Benedetta, glorious Benedetta (my review), which of course starred Efira as a lesbian nun who goes mad with holiness, of several different sorts. 

What a picture!!! But as revelatory an experience as that film was Efira's has proved herself as much if not even more formidable elsewhere -- she's tremendous in the 2019 movie Sibyl, which I reviewed during that year's NYFF right here. That was how I knew she'd kill it in Benedetta -- and sure enough!

And then I saw her in two films in the past year which have proven beyond any shadow she's the real f'ing deal -- I haven't written properly about Other People's Children (it just got released a few weeks ago here) but our pal Cláudio did at The Film Experience and I underline everything he says about it. Click that link and read.

I did not have anything near enough time to review the also-out-this-week OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN (which I saw at Sundance) but go see it, see it, SEE IT! Virginie Efira is a MARVEL, truly one of our best working today. An unforgettable heartbreaker, this one @musicboxfilms pic.twitter.com/LGajocQHk8

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) April 21, 2023

And then there's Revoir Paris from director Alice Winocour, which I saw at my beloved annual "Rendez-vous with French Cinema" series here in NYC at Film at Lincoln Center back in March -- Efira is once again phenomenal, this time as a woman who survives a mass shooting and falls apart as she can't remember what happened in the aftermath. It's a perfect companion piece to Winocour's film Disorder with Matthias Schoenaerts (reviewed here); they'd make a great double-feature actually, both being about people manifesting their reactions to trauma in experiential, outward ways.

Anyway Revoir Paris is being released here in the U.S. on June 23rd in New York and then in L.A. the next week, with a wider roll-out to follow planned, and we very much recommend seeking it out. We very much recommend seeking out all of the movies I have mentioned here, all because of the magnificent Efira. Here's the trailer:

I'd Really Love To Touch You

One of the greatest cult movies of all the cult movies in all the land, Paul Verhoeven's 1995 masterpiece d' sleaze Showgirls, is getting the fancy 4K treatment! This is courtesy of the ever fine folks at Vinegar Syndrome, and they've opened up the pre-orders for the disc right here as part of their "Halfway to Black Friday" flash sale, which is happening all weekend. Don't worry if you can't buy it right this minute -- they'll have it for sale again soon down the line. But if you order it now you get it much faster. Being the Physical Media Obsessive that I am I've ordered from VS a lot over the past couple of years and they rock; they're really one of the premiere sites in the boutique blu-ray business -- they haven't announced all of the extras yet but I'm sure they'll be stacked. I'm surprised they got their hands on a movie this big, honestly! I guess when they also got Road House in 4K recently we should've seen bigger things ahead. God, what a killer double-feature those two would make for. I have to force myself to hold off until I get my 4K Showgirls in the mail but I wanna double-feature that this weekend now!

Matthias Schoenaerts Real Fake News

While we wait impatiently to see beloved Belgian beefcake Matthias Schoenaerts tackle the iconic role of the gunslinger Django (originally given gorgeous life by Franco Nero) in a series hitting UK's SkyTV sometime this year (here's the trailer), here is some new news on his next project to get us by -- he's re-teaming with his Bullhead and The Racer and the Jailbird director Michaël R. Roskam to make a movie called Le Faux Soir (which translates to "The Fake Evening"), a retelling of a true-life tale from WWII "when the Belgian resistance secretly produced a spoof version of the country’s leading newspaper, Le Soir, which had become a propaganda tool of the occupying Nazi forces." (thx Mac) It's reminding me a little bit of Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, but probably just because...

... that movie was the first place I ever noticed Matthias. But also he was playing a resistance fighter in WWII, so. God I need to watch Black Book again, it's been a little while. What a perfect goddamned movie Black Book is. Anyway it's a little hypocritical of me to say that Matthias re-teaming with Roskam is an instant win from me because this loser typing at you here has somehow still not gotten around to watching The Racer and the Jailbird. I don't know how that is. I think I heard it was just mediocre and I didn't want to be disappointed. Anyway I need to get on that -- perhaps this weekend a Racer and the Jailbird and a Black Book double-feature will be on the books.

Good Morning, World

I know that actor Josh O'Connor has been modeling for the brand Loews for awhile -- I'm less sure about French actor Stéphane Bak because I'm less familiar with Bak, who I've only ever seen in three movies (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, Sebastian Schipper's Roads, and Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch). Anyway he's gorgeous...

... and he's friends with TImothee Chalamet and finally him and Josh look gorgeous together in Loews' latest campaign (photographed by David Sims, via) so sign me up! They should star in a romance, don't ya think? Hit the jump for several photos from this shoot for further convincing (or if you just wanna look)...

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Basic Instinct (1992)

Catherine: Cocaine. Have you ever

fucked on cocaine, Nick? It's nice.

Happiest of happy birthdays to queen legend and icon Sharon Stone today! Looking through the ridiculous quotes from this ridiculous movie I suddenly really want to re-watch this movie. It's been awhile and I so miss this kind of sleaze. The world desperately needs this kind of sleaze! We are crying out for a Sleaze Hero! Where's a Lady Eszterhas to save us???

5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1987

Picking back up my "Siri Says" series after a couple of busy weeks as we plow into its final stretch of entries -- as I explained one month ago I've only got around a dozen years left out of one hundred total to write up, so maybe we'll finish this series off before the world ends even! Wouldn't that be a hoot? This series, you might or mightn't know, involves me asking my iPhone to assign me a random number between 1 and 100, and then I give you my five favorite movies from the year that corresponds. Anyway that's how I did it for the majority of these posts, but now that we're down to such minuscule options I've just written the remaining years out on slips of paper, and I pick one that way.

Which brings me to this week's selection -- we'll be choosing our favorite movies from the movies of 1987! Which, well, all of these movies are coincidentally turning 35 this year, so prepare your cake-based celebrations accordingly. And you know what else? This is the last year that I had left from the 1980s! Whenever I finish off a decade like this I collect up links to all that decade's entries, so here those are for your glance-back pleasure:

Here are my favorite movies of 1980

Here are my favorite movies of 1981 

Here are my favorite movies of 1982

Here are my favorite movies of 1983

Here are my favorite movies of 1984

Here are my favorite movies of 1985

Here are my favorite movies of 1986

Here are my favorite movies of 1988

Here are my favorite movies of 1989

Personally speaking I have a deep fondness for a lot of 1980s cinema since I saw my first movie in that decade and slowly, across its span, found myself becoming the obsessive who types before you today, but... the 1980s? Not really the greatest decade for movies when it comes down to it. I can admit that. Don't get me wrong, there are heaps of great films, as all of those links above will show you. But when I steep myself in the general sense of 80s Cinema it's a lot of big budget nonsense that dominated, while even foreign art-cinema was in a kind of strange in-between place. But hey if the 80s are your favorite movie decade please let me have it in the comments! And it's possible I'm feeling less than enthusiastic about them today after going through 1987's specific offerings, which were a little wobbly in particular. But I found some great ones! (It's a really great year for horror movies, actually.) On that note here are...

My 5 Favorite Movies of 1987

Wings of Desire

(dir. Wim Wenders)

-- released on October 19th 1987 --

Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn

(dir. Sam Raimi)

-- released on March 13th 1987 --

Broadcast News

(dir. James Brooks)

-- released on December 13th 1987 --

RoboCop

(dir. Paul Verhoeven)

-- released on July 17th 1987 --

Maurice

(dir. James Ivory)

-- released on September 18th 1987 --

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Runners-up: Opera (dir. Dario Argento), The Princess Bride (dir. Rob Reiner), Full Metal Jacket (dir. Stanley Kubrick), Moonstruck (dir. Norman Jewison), Raising Arizona (dir. Coens), Fatal Attraction (dir. Adrian Lyne), Adventures in Babysitting (dir. Chris Columbus), Outrageous Fortune (dir. Arthur Hiller), The Last of England (dir. Derek Jarman), House of Games (dir. David Mamet), Near Dark (dir. Bigelow), Dolls (dir. Stuart Gordon)...

... Empire of the Sun (dir. Spielberg), Prince of Darkness (dir. John Carpenter), The Stepfather (dir. Joseph Ruben), River's Edge (dir. Tim Hunter), Hellraiser (dir. Clive Barker), Predator (dir. John McTiernan), The Running Man (dir. Paul Michael Glaser), Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2 (dir. Bruce Pittman), Withnail & I (dir. Bruce Robinson), Street Trash (dir. James Muro)

Never seen: My Life as a Dog (dir. Lasse Holstrom), Au Revoir Les Enfants (dir. Louis Malle), Angel Heart (dir. Alan Parker), The Believers (dir. John Schlesinger), Matewan (dir. John Sayles), Making Mr. Right (dir. Susan Seidelman), Ishtar (dir. Elaine May), Who's That Girl (dir. James Foley), The Dead (dir. John Huston), September (dir. Woody Allen), The Last Emperor (dir. Bertolucci)

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What are your favorite movies of 1987?

Nun-sense Incarnate!

Just in time for  all this annual religious shit, a gift! Paul Verhoeven's blaspheme-licious (TM Me) Benedetta is rentable on all your online renting services -- here is a link to Amazon where the film can be purchased for such purposes as you see fit, presumably of the eyeball sort, but who am I to judge. I reviewed the movie right here when it screened at NYFF in September, and having re-watched it last week I can tell you my opinion has not changed. I want every single one of you to be watching this over the holidays, and if you've gone home to visit relatives I want every single one of you to force your relatives to watch it. Paul Verhoeven is as ever the showman, incapable of boring for a single solitary second even as he makes caustic commentary on institutional hypocrisy of every sort. My god!

I am #NowWatching BENEDETTA again and imagine giving awards for acting this year and not saying the name Virginie fuckin’ Efira — bow down before this god damned queen pic.twitter.com/fRrlBAdbxP

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 12, 2021

I Sin You Sin We All Sin For Verhoeven

Using an image for this news from the Paul Verhoeven's 1983 film The 4th Man just because I want to look at that image from the Paul Verhoeven's 1983 film The 4th Man -- the news has to do with Verhoeven, not The 4th Man, but I think we're all okay with this. Right? So everybody's favorite dirty Dutch grandpa has announced what he's working on next now that his lesbian nun epic Benedetta (which I reviewed here) is out in theaters -- it's called Young Sinner and it's an erotic thriller set in Washington D.C. and it'll see him re-teaming with Edward Neumeier, the screenwriter of Starship Troopers & Robocop. Says the latter:

"Our heroine, a young staffer who works for a powerful Senator, is drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger, and of course there is also a little sex."

Of course! A little, a lot -- let's go with a lot. Anyway you know this makes me realize -- I have been in a lousy mood lately and what I need to do is have myself a little Verhoeven-a-thon. That always cheers me up. Like I haven't seen his movie Soldier of Orange in ages (sidenote: hey Criterion, Soldier of Orange is dying for a good release here in the US) -- a double-feature of that with Black Book? Forget about it! Mood fixed! Anyway back to Young Sinner -- what actress would y'all like to see Verhoeven work with on this? I know who I want...

Mike Mills Deserves Everything

If I were mentally stable enough to focus on "what movies are coming out this year" (which would require me to define "this year" aka a daunting task) Mike Mills' C'Mon C'Mon would be right near the tippy-top, alongside Dune and Last Night in Soho and Benedetta. I'll be seeing three of those four at NYFF in a few weeks -- guess I am going to have to wait for Soho until closer to its release date, boo) -- but today our first glimpse at Mills' film arrived and if you click on over to The Film Experience you can watch it. Because I posted it there. I hesitate to say I talked about the trailer though; I just sort of rambled. Like I'm doing right now! Life is amazing.

Big Little Lie

 

Another thing of mine that went up at The Film Experience yesterday too late to link to -- I wrote up the Main Slate of films that the New York Film Festival just announced, along with my Top 5 anticipated pictures. You can read that here. Seen above is of course the great Norwegian actor Anders Danielson Lie, who stars in two films playing NYFF this year -- Bergman Island from Mia Hansen-Løve, and the one I'm more a little more excited about, The Worst Person in the World from Lie's frequent collaborator Joachim Trier. Lie & Trier were responsible previously for the terribly accomplished twosome of Reprise and Oslo August 31st and it's a thrill, seeing them reunite for the first time in awhile after they've gone off and been awesome with other people for a bit.

Be-deviled and Be-nipped

The very first thing I saw on Twitter this morning was that nipped-up poster there for Paul Verhoeven's erotic lesbian nun romp Benedetta, which tickled me... but not too much, because I'd already seen that poster awhile back. People were pretending it was new but that beauty ain't new; I remember giggling about it last year, even. But then I realized the poster (and the half-nip) was just a tease and the real show was, cue angel choirs, the trailer! As expected it was announced the film is playing Cannes and so they've gifted us with the first footage, and y'all...

Me watching that BENEDETTA trailer pic.twitter.com/8OvIOwfzDU

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) May 5, 2021

It's no big surprise that this movie's giving us The Devils vibes -- as much was expect the second it was first rumored. I posted first about this film at the beginning of 2018 when Charlotte Rampling was cast and when it was still called Blessed Virgin -- it's totally living up to the three years of hype based on the trailer right? Even if I did like the original title better. Watch:

This hits Cannes and the entire country of France on the same day, July 9th -- us poor American SOBs will have to wait until who knows. I knew I should've applied for press to Cannes this year. (Dare to dream.) Anyway I find it kind of funny that this trailer has dropped on the same day that my beloved favorite podcasters the Gaylords of Darkness are talking Ken Russell's The Devils -- there's horny nun juice spraying everywhere, yall!

25 Off My Head: Siri Says 2016

I guess this website you're on is nursing some separation anxiety today after two weeks of holiday silence, because my intention to do a new entry in our "Siri Says" series -- where I ask my phone to choose a number between 1 and 100 and then choose my favorite movies from the corresponding year -- came at me with a huge ask this afternoon. One I had been dreading for awhile. See, Siri came back at me with the number "16", forcing me to choose my favorites from The Movies of 2016, and... 

... well I don't know if you remember 2016, but there was a lot happening in 2016. Especially at its stinger of a tail-end. The bottom dropped out, a nightmare swallowed us up, and I couldn't focus on making silly little lists. Or much of anything. It's been four years of this so maybe you can't recall how we all died, a lot, inside right around then... but we did. And so I never awarded my annual "Golden Trousers" awards for the movies of 2016. They just got lost in the mix of sturm und drang and shit. 

And I have regretted this gaping absence ever since, but... well politics aside, 2016 was actually a wonderful, seriously wonderful, year for the movies. Insanely good! (I mean it's even the year where I first heard about Call Me By Your Name, for goodness' sake!) And so the task of actually mounting this list always seemed daunting. Super massive daunting, really. And if there's one thing you know about me it's that I love Jake Gyllenhaal. But if there are two things you know about me there's that I love Jake Gyllenhaal and I am lazy. So this list just kept being put off, and off, and off. 

But now, well, why not? This is one way to put a cap on the past four awful years. And... also I'm just sitting here, trying to get myself back into the blogging frame of mind after two weeks off. Why not set myself a massive task? So usually when I do these "Siri Says" lists I just give you five movies in no particular order from the year in question, but this will not do. It doesn't seem to meet the demand of this moment, this year of movies. So not only am I ranking the films, but I'm giving you a Top 25. 2016 was too good for any less than too much, man!

My 25 Favorite Movies of 2016

25. Pee-wee's Big Holiday

(dir. John Lee)

24. Silence

(dir. Martin Scorsese)

23. The Love Witch

(dir. Anna Biller)

22. The Ornithologist

(dir. João Pedro Rodrigues)

21. Always Shine

(dir. Sofia Takal)

20. Arrival

(dir. Denis Villeneuve)

19. Neon Bull

(dir. Gabriel Mascaro)

18. Green Room

(dir. Jeremy Saulnier)

17. Wiener-dog

(dir. Todd Solondz)

16. Julieta

(dir. Pedro Almodovar)

15. Certain Women

(dir. Kelly Reichardt)

14. Aquarius

(dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)

13. Christine

(dir. Antonio Campos)

12. A Monster Calls

(dir. J.A. Bayona)

11. Jackie

(dir. Pablo Larrain)

10. The Invitation

(dir. Karyn Kusama)

9. Kubo and the Two Strings

(dir. Travis Knight)

8. Elle

(dir. Paul Verhoeven)

7. A Bigger Splash

(dir. Luca Guadagnino)

6. The Neon Demon

(dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)

5. Moonlight

(dir. Barry Jenkins)

4. The Witch

(dir. Robert Eggers)

3. The Handmaiden

(dir. Park Chan-wook)

2. 20th Century Women

(dir. Mike Mills)

1. American Honey 

(dir. Andrea Arnold) 

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Runners-up: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (dir. André Øvredal), Train to Busan (dir. Sang-ho Yeon), Hail Caesar! (dir. Coens), The Light Between Oceans (dir. Derek Cianfrance), High-Rise (dir. Ben Wheatley), The Eyes of My Mother (dir. Nicolas Pesce), Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallee), Nocturnal Animals (dir. Tom Ford)...

... Nocturama (dir. Bertrand Bonello), Under the Shadow (dir. Babak Anvari), I, Daniel Blake (dir. Ken Loach), Things To Come (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve), Shin Godzilla (dir. Cris George), The Shallows (dir. Jaume Collet-Serra), Captain America: Civil War (dir. Russos), Swiss Army Man (dir. Daniel Scheinert), Spa Night (dir. Andrew Ahn)

Never seen: Sausage Party (dir. Conrad Vernon), Dirty Grandpa (dir. Dan Mazer), Handsome Devil (dir. John Butler), My Life as a Zucchini (dir. Claude Barras), Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi), Snowden (dir. Oliver Stone), Sully (dir. Clint Eastwood), Pete's Dragon (dir. David Lowery), The B.F.G. (dir. Steven Spielberg), Eddie the Eagle (dir. Dexter Fletcher)

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What are your favorite movies of 2016?