"50 Black Bag Steven Soderbergh's spy thriller sends two married agents Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender after a mole, who might turn out to be one of them. Read the full review. 49 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Unconventional On Becoming A Guinea Fowl. Photograph: Courtesy: Cannes film festival Zambian-Welsh film-maker Rungano Nyoni's unconventional, and blackly comic, family drama is an inventive and playful surprise. Read the full review. 48 Train Dreams Joel Edgerton is superb in Clint Bentley's Malickian story of trees, grief and railroads. Read the full review."
"47 Peter Hujar's Day Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in this verbatim retelling of Hujar's day in hip 1970s New York, recounting encounters with Ginsberg, Burroughs and Leibowitz. Read the full review. 46 Father Mother Sister Brother Awkward and close Vicky Krieps, Cate Blanchett and Charlotte Rampling in Father Mother Sister Brother. Photograph: Yorick Le Saux/Vague Notion 2024 Jim Jarmusch explores the awkwardness and closeness of parents with their grownup children in three slyly comic panels of drama set in the US, Dublin and Paris. Read the full review. 45 Sound of Falling The same location in seen over four different timeframes in this unsettling and unusual German drama. Read the full review."
"44 Sentimental Value Stellan Skarsgard is an egomaniac director in act of ancestor worship in Joachim Trier's entertaining drama. Read the full review. 43 Cover-Up Ode to journalism Seymour Hersh in 1975, as seen in Cover-Up. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix/Redux Laura Poitras's Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling and impeccably structured ode to journalism. Read the full review. 42 Ghost Trail Jonathan Millet makes his fiction feature debut with an ambitious slow-burn thriller that opens up a complex world of pain as a Syrian refugee attempts to track down his torturer. Read the full review. 41 One to One: John & Yoko Kevin Macdonald's surprising documentary catches a radioactively charismat"
A numbered list presents films ranked 50 through 41 with brief synopses and standout elements. Entries note directors, lead performances, national or festival contexts, and central themes. The selection includes a Soderbergh spy thriller featuring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, Rungano Nyoni's blackly comic Zambian‑Welsh family drama, and a Malickian train-and-grief story starring Joel Edgerton. Other items highlight a verbatim 1970s New York portrait, Jim Jarmusch's familial panels across cities, an unsettling German time-framed drama, Joachim Trier's film about an egomaniacal director, a Seymour Hersh documentary, and a Syrian refugee thriller.
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