But I don’t mean that figuratively. I’ll really keep it to just a few. But before I do anything I need to say something really important, which is that anyone who claims that either Parasite or Moonlight or Jojo Rabbit are 21st Century masterpieces is really fucked up in the head and needs…I don’t know what they need but they need to unscrew their heads and then screw them back on correctly.
1. No Country for Old Men, 2. Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days, 3. Zodiac, 4. A Separation, 5. 12 Years A Slave, 6. Sideways, 7. Adaptation, 8. Superbad, 9. A Serious Man, 10. J’Accuse (An Officer and a Spy), 11. Manchester By The Sea, 12. The Social Network, 13. Zero Dark Thirty, 14. The Wolf of Wall Street, 15. Leviathan, 16. The Square, 17. Moneyball.
Is there anyone out there who hasn’t seen Cristian Mingiu‘s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (’07)? Or who doesn’t agree with the general consensus that it’s absolutely a genius-level, world-class drama that’s about much more than a couple of women trying to obtain an illegal abortion in socialist Romania in the late ’80s? (Although it certainly is that for starters.) The Criterion Bluray pops on 1.22.19
