Here are some things that I hadn’t seen before in the movies:
- Lead characters in Toni Erdmann and Elle that were completely sui generis.
- A movie exposé, Under the Sun, built out of outtakes shot under the noses of the North Korean government handlers.
- Tower, a documentary about a mass shooting that barely mentioned the shooter – and with a startlingly effective look.
- The Greasy Strangler, a movie actually constructed as a cult movie for the midnight shows
- The Korean period con artist movie The Handmaiden delivered some unforeseeable plot twists – and was gorgeous and erotic, too.
