{"id":4716,"date":"2016-12-31T22:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T22:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2018-10-30T01:41:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T01:41:32","slug":"top-5-movies-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/top-5-movies-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Movies of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester by the Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manchester by the Sea<\/em>‘s magic lies\u00a0in more than the sum of its parts: yes, Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams’ nuanced performances are note-perfect\u2014imbuing their characters with the right kind of\u00a0pathos\u2014director Kenneth Lonergan’s script is subtle, smart and remarkably affecting, the cinematography\u00a0is crisp, muted and respectfully immersive. But what makes Manchester by the Sea<\/em> more than a melancholy story of family, death and hope, is the tender way in which its individual elements elevate it into a\u00a0carefully-constructed, unforgettable masterpiece.<\/p>\n

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Moonlight<\/strong><\/p>\n

An exquisite ensemble effort, Moonlight<\/em>\u00a0should be\u00a0experienced,\u00a0not retold. Hypnotic in its execution, Moonlight<\/em> is that rare coming of-age story that plays out like a poetic art piece\u2014intimate, heartbreaking,\u00a0relatable. But to say Moonlight<\/em> is about any one thing\u2014the most obvious being the tough coming-of-age of its central character, a\u00a0black gay male growing up in Miami\u2014would be to discount\u00a0what makes the movie so triumphant: its vital portrait of African-American culture is a universal,\u00a0observant and deeply emotive\u00a0document framed by cogent yet understated cinematic\u00a0fluorishes.<\/p>\n

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Krisha<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Trey Edward Shult made waves as soon as Krisha<\/em>\u2014his first full-length feature film\u2014hit the festival circuit in early 2016. And with good reason: Krisha<\/em> is an incredible film\u2014a brisk, jagged family drama that is, at once, as intense and difficult as it is emotive and humane. Home for Thanksgiving after a decade away from her family, Krisha is ready for\u00a0reconciliation. Or is she? A seen-before premise gives way for a brutal, honest and poignant character study that plays as a\u00a0gut-punch of emotional distress.<\/p>\n

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Christine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antonio Campos’ growing oeuvre is\u00a0reflective of a strong sense of vision, and a penchant for stories\u00a0fueled by dramatic protagonists that write their own destiny through actions they direct yet, \u00a0have no ability to\u00a0control.\u00a0Such is Christine<\/em>, a chilling character study based on the real-life story story of Christine Chubbuck, \u00a0a newscaster for Sarasota, Fla. based WTOG and WXLT-TV who, in 1974, took her life on air. Like Chelsea from Campos’ Buy It Now<\/em>\u00a0before it, Christine<\/em>‘s titular character is a provocative, tragically complex anti-heroine\u00a0trapped in the crosshairs of ambition\u00a0and a damaged psyche. Grim without being sensationalist, Christine<\/em>\u00a0rises above its narrow subject matter to question\u00a0complex matters of identity and self-worth.<\/p>\n

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Things to Come<\/strong><\/p>\n

Things to Come<\/em> was not Isabelle Huppert’s only movie that debuted this year\u2014it was her fourth, in fact\u2014but it was\u00a0the one where she turned in her most affecting\u00a0performance.\u00a0Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve’s restrained, powerful drama\u2014in which Huppert\u00a0plays a Parisian academic whose life is rattled by a series of life-altering events\u2014is a contemplatively nuanced reflection on middle-age, tempered with a profoundly moving performance by Huppert. But the movie is as much about Huppert’s controlled, gutsy performanceship as it is about Hansen-L\u00f8ve’s penchant for crafting emotion without devolving into pathos.<\/p>\n

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Manchester by the Sea Manchester by the Sea‘s magic lies\u00a0in more than the sum of its parts: yes, Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams’ nuanced performances are note-perfect\u2014imbuing their characters with the right kind of\u00a0pathos\u2014director Kenneth Lonergan’s script is subtle, smart and remarkably affecting, the cinematography\u00a0is crisp, muted and respectfully immersive. But what makes Manchester by the Sea more than a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[378,377,381,380,379],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-christine","tag-isabelle-huppert","tag-manchester-by-the-sea","tag-michelle-williams","tag-rebecca-hall"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-1e4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}