Knives Out: Sharpest Writing of 2019?
Knives Out doesn’t just defy the whodunit narrative, it uses the weaknesses to its advantage. It’s well aware of the genre’s faults and tropes

In Paris, university student Salwa meets Dr. Sharif, and they fall in love. He tells her the reason for his stay in Paris. He caused the death of a patient after he insisted on performing surgery on him despite the objections of his colleagues. The press attacks him, so he leaves Egypt.
Knives Out doesn’t just defy the whodunit narrative, it uses the weaknesses to its advantage. It’s well aware of the genre’s faults and tropes
"Warrior" is a Bruce Lee written and inspired story that follows a diverse cast of Chinese American characters and does a terrific job of setting the story in 1878 San Francisco - all without pulling their punches with the systemic racism, discrimination, and struggle for power that old and young immigrants that crossed the country at that time had to go through.
This list was made with the intention of celebrating comedic craft and a love of seeing more women of colour and newcomers on the scene.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.