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In The Novelist's Film, Hong explores the meaningful things people share and inspire by virtue of simply engaging with one another.

"Up" features one of Pixar's few Asian-American heroes and explores the institutionalized hardships elderly people face. Also, Dug is a good boy.

The human experience is described through the eyes of a marginalized outsider, neither judgmental nor invested, just an observant donkey.

The relationship between the characters is what makes this film stand out, and it’s just all-around fun.

With The Father, writer-director Florian Zeller- who wrote and developed the play upon which the film is based- pulls no punches as he confidently makes every effort to put the audience in the mind of someone whose grip on reality has all but vanished. It’s a dazzling testament to Zeller’s abilities as a director as he makes his first transition from stage to film appear as if he’s been working behind a camera his entire career. The dialogue he fashions with co-writer Christopher Hampton, along with the work of production designers Peter Francis and Cathy Featherstone, collectively makes the downward spiral of dementia startlingly tangible, doing so in a way that can be comprehended by everyone except the person it directly affects.

A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.