By HOWARD MCQUITTER II
#1 Everything Everywhere All at Once. Fantasy/Comedy/Action/Science Fiction/Thriller. Directors: Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
#2 Till. African American/Biographical/Drama/History/Civil Rights. Director: Chinonye Chukwu.
#3 The Banshees of Inisherin. Drama/Period Piece. Director: Martin McDonagh.
#4 The Whale. Drama. Director: Darren Aronofsky.
#5 Elvis. Biography/Music/Drama. Director: Baz Luhrmann.
#6 Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio. Animation/Claymation/Drama/Family/Thriller. Director: Guillermo Del Toro.
#7 The Fabelmans. Semibiographical/Family/Drama/Period Piece. Director: Steven Spielberg.
#8 Nope. Science Fiction/Science Fantasy/Thriller/Drama. Director: Jordan Peele.
#9 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Science Fantasy/Action/African American. Director: Ryan Coogler.
#10 The Gravedigger’s Wife. Drama/Romance/Road. Director: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed.*
Other Notable Films:
The Crossing. Animation/Drama/Thriller/Mystery. Director: Florence Miailhe. (French with English subtitles) *
Barbarian. Horror/Drama/Mystery. Director: Zach Cregger.
Vengeance. Comedy/Mystery/Thriller. Director: B. J. Novak.
The Good Nurse. Biography/Crime/ Drama. Director: Tobias Lindholm.
Persian Lessons. Drama/WWII/Nazi Germany. Director: Vadim Perelman. (German/French/Farsi with English subtitles) *
Hinterland. Drama/WWII/Germany/Mystery/Murder. Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky. (German with English subtitles) *
Empire of Light. Romance/Race Relations/1980s/Drama/Great Britain. Director: Sam Mendes.
Medusa. Mystery/Drama/Women/Evangelical Christianity/Violence/Romance. Director: Anita Rocha da Silveira. (From Brazil, Portuguese with English subtitles) *
Smile. Horror/Mental Hospital/Drama/Psychoanalysis. Director: Parker Finn
* Minneapolis and St. Paul International Film Festival
