![]() ![]() It’s a recipe that grinds out as many tears as it does laughs, all the way to the bitter end. That this relationship reads true, and even sincere, while so much around the pair can have its tongue firmly planted in cheek suggests a bottomless well of sorrow beneath all the food industry satire. But in its heart, and past the excess, this is a love story between a little girl named Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun) and a computer-generated super pig. Okja (2017)īong Joon-ho’s second American film is an eclectic affair, as indicated by Tilda Swinton playing the twin faces of capitalist greed and Jake Gyllenhaal portraying some hellish hybrid between a Fox News contributor and National Geographic host. Even though the iconoclastic director’s film never sees the light of day (and indeed is almost doomed from the start), the documentary makes the case that the concepts and designs for Jodorowsky’s adaptation have nevertheless become highly influential on later sci-fi films-a fascinating statement on the power of creativity. Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)Ī documentary about one of the great “what ifs” of cinema, Jodorowsky’s Dune recounts cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed attempt to bring the classic sci-fi novel Dune to the screen in the mid-1970s. So raise a glass and join us at saluting the 2010s at the movies.įor their devastating on screen transformations, McConaughey won the Best Actor Oscar and Jared Leto took the Best Supporting Actor statue at the 86th Academy Awards, the fifth time that’s ever happened in the history of the Academy. That has clearly led to some populist picks, but also some more obscure and intriguing ones. The below list was voted on by more than just our film critics: the entire editorial staff of Den of Geek in all sections cast ballots for their 100 favorite movies of the decade. Hence we at Den of Geek have pooled our resources to celebrate just a few of them. However, what often gets lost in the shuffle is it’s still a great time for films. These are tumultuous times for movie lovers, and a moment of great transition. Now shared cinematic universes and streaming services have upended the entire entertainment industry and the very notion of what is “cinema.” Just 10 years ago, Marvel Studios’ shared cinematic universe seemed still a gamble on the part of Kevin Feige and his new bosses at Disney, and Netflix was still largely relying on the U.S. Yet it would be too precious to pretend things haven’t changed in the interim between now and December 2009. Can you believe it? As is often the case, it feels as if the decade has flashed by in the blink of an eye. Read the full review 18 LivingĮxquisitely sad drama starring Bill Nighy in a Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru about a man dealing with a terminal diagnosis.Ten years. Penélope Cruz is on fire in delicious movie industry satire in which she plays an eccentric director using unorthodox techniques to manage lead actors – and polar opposites – Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez. Read the full review 19 Official Competition Read the full review 20 The Northmanīrutal Viking saga based on the same legend as Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with Alexander Skarsgård as the chieftain’s son out for vengeance on the man who murdered his father and took his throne. Photograph: Midnight/AllstarĬreepy-kid horror from Norwegian director Eskil Vogt (co-writer of The Worst Person in the World), about two young sisters who make friends with other children who apparently possess supernatural powers. Icily brilliant … Rakel Lenora Fløttum in The Innocents. ![]() Gentle, funny drama of a man seeking money for his spouse’s operation and his sick spouse from Somali-born director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed. Read the full review 25 The Gravedigger’s Wife Read the full review 26 White Noiseĭon DeLillo’s novel of campus larks and eco dread gets an elegant, droll film treatment from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. Read the full review 27 No BearsĬomplex metafiction of fear in which now-jailed director Jafar Panahi plays a version of himself, forced to shoot his new film in a town near the border with Turkey. Read the full review 28 CowĪmerican Honey director Andrea Arnold’s meaty slice of bovine socio-realism, detailing the life of dairy cows with unflinching and empathic precision. Second half of Joanna Hogg’s autobiographical drama, with Honor Swinton Byrne as film student Julie as she abandons her social issue documentary in favour of making her own autobiographical memoir. Austere … Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton in The Souvenir Part II. ![]()
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