Josh Cabrita’s Top 5:
5. Everybody Wants Some!!
Even when his characters are doofuses, Richard Linklater has sympathy for them. This might be his most rosy-eyed film, but Everybody Wants Some!! feels all the more sobering and heartfelt because of it.
4. The Wailing
The Wailing is a horror film as visceral as it is perplexing. It remains in your thoughts for weeks, but the petrifying images will last you a lifetime.
3. Midnight Special
Midnight Special is about faith and demands some from its audience. It baits mystery but never remains earth-bound. It refuses to make sense of itself except through love for its complex, human characters
2. The BFG
There aren’t film like The BFG anymore, or maybe there never has been. This is Spielberg’s take on the CGI blockbuster, a film informed by ‘80s sincerity and executed with modern gizmos. Each frame feels like magic.
1. Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups, perhaps the pinnacle of Terrence Malick’s career, is daunting in meaning, enormous in scope and overflowing with emotion. Malick has become more ethereal and musical as his form has abstracted. Knight of Cups is his symphony.
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