I kept running at this one and really could only come up with a repeat of synopses and potted reviews I've already given. Instead, and because it's late, here is my favourite and least favourite of last year.
Best: Titane - it is always refreshing to go to the cinema and feel transformed by what you witness there. This nightmare of sex, violence, gender and responsibility could not be bettered.
Worst: Coming Home in the Dark - A wasted extreme moment and then a long deflation and then a sloppy generic ending by which time I had long since ceased to care. Everything was in the wrong proportion which made the central thiller road movie progressively contrived. Irreversible and Inside and Martyrs all have points to make and make them precisely and with warmth, regardless of the atrocities on screen. This team has only learned how to shock, the human elements just don't fall into place automatically and the responsibility of earning the right to show the extremity has long fled the scene.
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