TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
An equilateral work of joy.

NO BEARS
It's a film about filmmaking. It’s about love, borders, borderline love. Maybe there were no actual bears, but I saw bear-hugs, bug bears, forbearance, the bearing of ordeals, the vehicle that bears, trees bearing fruit, and unbearable politics.

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT
My Top Ten would not be complete without an appearance by my husband, Nic Cage. This is his magnum opus.

LICORICE PIZZA
First love coming-of-age story set in the San Fernando Valleys in the '70s with an unlikely couple, excellently cast by Paul Thomas Anderson not for their "Hollywood looks" but their sparky authentic connection. Delicious.

COMPARTMENT NO. 6
Anyone who has ever been brave/naïve enough to travel alone to the other side of the world in the 1990s (Before Internet) will get this. (And if you haven’t, you’ll want to).

AFTERSUN
Apply liberally.

BARBARIAN
Elevated horror, best gone in cold.

THE NORTHMAN
It’s great... but I wouldn’t want to watch it again.

RED ROCKET / PLEASURE
Two For One. Almost as if they were made as sequels, male v. female perspectives on the porn industry, raising questions of consent and power and age in an ageless industry. Crafted in a pleasing way.

STRAWBERRY MANSION
Surprising poignant, dreamy, fantasy that has whiffs of Terry Gillian’s Brazil. Nuts.

Honourable mention goes to A BUNCH OF AMATEURS. Good to know there’s hope for me yet.


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