1) Blade Runner 2049

In many regards, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 film resonates with the hermetically sealed innocence of a snow globe.

2) Dunkirk

Dunkirk has a genuine emotional truth that both horrifies and enlightens in the same breath.

3) The Beguiled 

The Beguiled is a sumptuous and terse Southern Gothic that uses the conventions of the rarefied genre to illustrate the brewing tensions between old-fashioned respectability and individualistic desire.

4) Moonlight

The most astounding aspect of Moonlight is its generous gift of lingering. The camera allows the viewer to remain in a moment and feel its raw emotions. An early scene has a close up of a young Chiron reacting with annoyance to an offered hand of apology by his surrogate father figure. In most other films, a moment of this nature would not even be alluded to let alone shown. Much like the central character holds on to the memories from the past, the audience will not soon forget Barry Jenkins’ tough and touching depiction of coming of age in contemporary America.

5) The Lost City of Z

James Grey’s ambitious and enthralling chronicling of Percy Fawcett’s exploratory venture into Amazonia reminds us of the multi-faceted nature of discovery. It can be maddening, generational and sometimes sincerely transcendent.

6) Star Wars Episode VIII- The Last Jedi

The Last Jedi is an assuredly bold and subversive film that digs beneath the surface of the space fantasy franchise, finds its mythological heart and puts it on a monumentally striking canvas.

7) Get Out

Much like Roman Polanski, Jordan Peele can make the banal unnerving. But the sheer masterstroke of Get Out is the first time director taking that one step further to make the audience experience the realities of racism in today’s age, while also subtly alluding to its horrific past.

8) T2 Trainspotting

T2 Trainspotting is a compellingly sobering follow-up to the much-admired 1996 film.

9) Silence 

For the much revered and venerated Martin Scorcese, Silence represents the director’s magnum opus. The film is a tremendously soul-stirring odyssey of devotion, persecution and theological struggle with Scorcese’s firm directorial hand at its most contemplative and visceral.

10) Baby Driver

With Baby Driver, Edgar Wright has crafted a sly, whimsical and hardening genre film that emanates with wry invention and visual exuberance