Cinema 2017: Modern Favourites

I have been away from this blog for five months. And I could watch only 140 movies in the last one year. The reason behind this will be known to you soon. Meanwhile, as the year ends, let me share with you the list of the ten modern movies I loved most in 2017. For this, I have considered all movies released in the last five years but first watched by me in the last twelve months:

1. Dunkirk (2017/ UK-USA) by Christopher Nolan
2. Get Out (2017/ USA) by Jordan Peele
3. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016/ USA) by Travis Knight
4. Lion (2016/ Australia-UK) by Garth Davis
5. Manchester by the Sea (2016/ USA) by Kenneth Lonergan
6. Rams (2015/ Iceland) by Grimur Hakonarson
7. Taxi Tehran (2015/ Iran) by Jafar Panahi
8. Toni Erdmann (2016/ Germany-Austria) by Maren Ade
9. What We Do in the Shadows (2014/ New Zealand) by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
10. Wonder Woman (2017/ USA) by Patty Jenkins

Also loved: 'Hacksaw Ridge' (2016/ USA-Australia) by Mel Gibson, 'Moonlight' (2016/ USA) by Barry Jenkins, and 'The VVitch' (2015/ USA-Canada) by Robert Eggers

And some unforgettable ones: 'The Lure' (2015/ Poland) by Agnieszka Smoczynska, 'The Tribe' (Plemya) (2014/ Ukrain) by Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, and 'Hard to Be a God' (2013/ Russia) by Aleksei German