Envelhescência (2015)

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.

The film didn’t have to be as long as it is. It just dragged on and on with scenes that had no substance. Every so often we get an action scene, and even those isn’t that fun.

True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.

While this film thinks that it is diagnosing the cause, it is merely diagnosing a symptom instead. 

On the Road captures the bleak, hyper-masculine world of long-haul trucking in Northern Mexico, where anything can and will happen. A hard-boiled, neon-noir romantic thriller, it shows the gritty reality of roadside diners, truck stops, and truck cemeteries alongside the expansive, breathless beauty of the Mexican desert highways.

Disclosure Day asks us to question humanity's role in the universe but falls victim to the same assumptions of centrality.