This year I attended the Cannes Film Festival(!!!!!), attended many advance screenings, and saw films in Minneapolis, LA, NYC, Tampa, Cairo, Cannes. This was a real year of surprise and discovery. The things I was familiar with didn’t do a lot for me, so I decided to go blind into a lot of unknowns without even watching the trailer, and those are mostly the things that made it onto these lists. I feel like my top 10/30 really encapsulates me as a person. The lover of spectacle, the hopeless romantic, the laugher, the crier, the existentialist....