Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (2012)

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

This coming-of-age movie discusses immigration issues in the United States through the eyes of two exchange students in Brazil.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

Wacky antics ensue when a 100-year-old Jewish man wakes up from a pickled hibernation in the modern world.

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.

The most impressive aspect of this film is the honest and natural performances given by the on-screen duo.