New York City is the only place you might have been able to see all of my top ten this year. Thank the higher and lower powers (and maybe even the film gods) for the New York Film Festival , revival houses that often do better business with crackpot art films than supposed commercial blockbusters, and all the film nuts still out there who commute to the city to worship at the altar of alternative cinema. Just think, Jim Jarmusch , Richard Linklater , Gus Van Sant , Kathryn Bigelow , Spike Lee , and Paul Thomas Anderson all got their signature-style films financed and distributed — amazingly wonderful! Here are my fucked-up favorites; they need all the help they can get.

1. Eddington (Ari Aster) Photo: Richard Foreman/A24/Everett Collection

My favorite movie of the yea

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