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By Kam Williams
Kam’s Annual Assessment
of the Cream of the Cinematic
Crop
10 Best Big Budget
Films
1. Crazy Rich Asians
2. Widows
3. Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Green Book
5. Vice
6. Black Panther
7. Destroyer
8. The Hate U Give
9. Love, Simon
10. BlacKkKlansman
Big Budgets Honorable
Mention
11. Ready Player One
12. Beirut
13. The Girl in the Spider’s
Web
14. First Man
15. Superfly
16. Life of the Party
17. Uncle Drew
18. Ben Is Back
19. Incredibles 2
20. The Equalizer 2
21. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
22. The Other Side of the
Wind
23. Ocean’s 8
24. A Wrinkle in Time
25. Night School
10 Best Independent
Films
1. Eighth Grade
2. Monsters and Men
3. Private Life
4. Sorry to Bother You
5. If Beale Street Could Talk
6. Blindspotting
7. Skate Kitchen
8. Assassination Nation
9. The Ballad of Buster
Scruggs
10. Gemini
Independent Films
Honorable Mention
11. Borg vs. McEnroe
12. Tyrel
13. Chappaquiddick
14. Upgrade
15. Bad Samaritan
16. Mid90s
17. Roxanne Roxanne
18. Kings
19. Support the Girls
20. Vox Lux
21. Nappily Ever After
22. Supercon
23. Unbroken: Path to
Redemption
24. Samson
25. Midnight Sun
10 Best Foreign Films
1. Revenge (France)
2. Cold War (Poland)
3. Roma (Mexico)
4. Shoplifters (Japan)
5. The Guilty (Denmark)
6. On Her Shoulders (Iraq)
7. The Citizen (Hungary)
8. The Resistance Banker (The
Netherlands)
9. I Am Not a Witch (Zambia)
10. The Road Movie (Russia)
Foreign Films
Honorable Mention
11. Mirai (Japan)
12. Under the Tree (Iceland)
13. Girl (Belgium)
14. The Night Is Short, Walk
on Girl (Japan)
15. Searching for Ingmar
Bergman (Sweden)
16. Kinshasha Makambo
(Congo)
17. November (Estonia)
18. Lu over the Wall (Japan)
19. A Twelve-Year Night
(Uruguay)
20. Suspiria (Germany)
21. Beauty and the Dogs
(Tunisia)
22. Tazzeka (Morocco)
23. Summer 1993 (Spain)
24. Ismael’s Ghosts (France)
25. Fireworks (Japan)
10 Best
Documentaries
1. Active Measures
2. Three Identical Strangers
3. Shirkers
4. Quincy
5. Science Fair
6. Alt-Right: Age of Rage
7. RBG
8. John McEnroe: In the
Realm of Perfection
9. Divide and Conquer: The
Story of Roger Ailes
10. Hal
Documentaries
Honorable Mention
11. They’ll Love Me When
I’m Dead
12. What Lies Upstream
13. The King
14. The Gospel According
to Andre
15. The China Hustle
16. Boom for Real: The Late
Teenage Years of Jean-Michel
Basquiat
17. Where’s Daddy?
18. The Last Race
19. Seeing Allred
20. The Bleeding Edge
21. The Final Year
22. Bad Reputation
23. Love, Gilda
24. Reversing Roe
25. Making The Five Heartbeats
Viola Davis (second from left) and her team in “Widows.”
Independent & Foreign Films
American Hangman
(Unrated) Tale of vigilante
justice about a judge
(Donald Sutherland)
who is kidnapped and
put on trial live over the
internet after botching a
criminal case. With Vincent Kartheiser,
Oliver Dennis and Paul Braunstein.
Being Rose (Unrated) Cybill Sheherd
handles the title role in this romance
drama as a wheelchair-bound widow
who falls in love with an elderly cowboy
(James Brolin) while traveling solo
across the Southwest. Cast features
Pam Grier, Amy Davidson and Cindy
Pickett.
Great Great Great (Unrated) Romance
drama about a couple (Dan Beirne and
Sarah Kolasky) whose blissful relationship
starts to fall apart when they
finally get engaged after being together
for five years. Support cast includes
Richard Clarkin, Lindsay Leese and Ian
Fisher.
Mojin: The Worm Valley (Unrated)
Action-oriented sequel based on Luo
Xiao’s best-selling series of novels finds
a team of explorers embarking on a perilous
expedition in search of an ancient
emperor’s tomb located on a faraway
island infested with treacherous monsters.
Co-starring Cai Heng, Gu Xuan
and Cheng Taishen. (In Mandarin with
subtitles)
Kam’s Kapsules
By Kam Williams
Rust Creek (R for profanity, violence
and drug use) Harrowing tale of survival
about an ambitious college senior
(Hermione Corfield) who finds herself
pursued by a gang of bloodthirsty outlaws
through the Kentucky backwoods
after taking a wrong turn on her way to
a job interview. With Jay Paulson, Sean
O’Bryan and Jeremy Glazer.
State Like Sleep (Unrated) Suspense
thriller revolving around a young widow
(Katherine Waterston) who receives an
unsettling phone call directing her
return to Brussels to unravel the mystery
of her husband’s (Michiel Huisman)
untimely death. Cast includes
Michael Shannon, Luke Evans and
Mary Kay Place.
The Vanishing (R for violence and
profanity) Fact-based thriller set on
a tiny Scottish isle where three lighthouse
keepers (Gerard Butler, Peter
Mullan and Connor Swindells) vanish
without a trace after finding a
treasure chest filled with gold aboard
a shipwrecked rowboat. With Olafur
Darri Olafsson, Gary Lewis and Emma
King.
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