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I haven't seen all of the recent highly acclaimed films (especially those form Europe and Asia), so maybe a bit biased towards the first half of the decade:

There Will Be Blood (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Let the Right One In (2008)
The Tree of Life (2011)

I only had 84 new rankings for 2016, and not all of them films. Been busy, but I'm trying to get back into watching films more regularly, as well as rewatching more things I haven't seen in forever. Tier 10s: 95 - Underground - God, this was fucking crazy. Kustirica is incredible at creating odd yet...

paulofilmo wrote:i'm excited by the thought of Noe in VR. imagine with the right drugs. the amount of shadow dictated by your brain waves, the level of dissonance in the soundscape. mmm

This can only be either horrifying or amazing, but it must be made.

Of course films are different than they were in the 50s and 60s, the social context those films were made in doesn't exist anymore. If you're expecting the French New Wave to recur, well that won't happen. The decline of middle-budget films has certainly polarized cinema, I agree, and this seems to ...

Yeah I saw this a few days ago but it's good stuff.

Haha, I was going to come here and post his reviews.

(as though there is a cinema that does not manipulate) Exactly! Cinema is inherently manipulative, all the way down to its most basic levels. Even the act of pointing the camera at something is subtly manipulative, because you are not pointing it at something else. But notice a key word I used ther...

I have to go to the second page. The first one I haven't ranked is 12 Monkeys, but that's because I've only seen parts of it a long time ago. The next unranked film is Edward Scissorhands, but I'm pretty sure the same situation applies to that one as well. Finally we get to Shrek 2, which is the fir...

Ah, that at least makes a bit more sense than my first read of it. And yeah, perhaps it's the contrast of suck prose with such beliefs that's the really perplexing part here.

Turning the thread back towards its original intent a bit, user The Way's reviews can be quite baffling at times. To an extent I guess they're explainable in that he appears to be some kind of Chinese fascist who loves overly-flowery language. But seriously, take a look at his review for Seven Samur...