LEONARDO DICAPRIO IN ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

FEATURES
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Sirat (Oliver Laxe)
Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
Urchin (Harris Dickinson)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)

RUNNERS UP
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
The New Boy (Warwick Thornton)
Also mention: An Officer and a Spy (Roman Polanski), although of 2019, now US-released; Frankenstein (Guillermo Del Toro), with its handsome Creature and exquisite production values; perhaps I'll add, though overrated due to its significant theme, Eva Victor's Sorry Baby.

That list looks solid now (Urchin and The Mastermind are recent additions), But I still haven't seen Peter Hujar's Day, M̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ S̶u̶p̶r̶e̶m̶e̶, The Voice of Hind Rajab, The President's Cake, Sound of Falling, and others that may rearrange the list.

LESS ENTHUSIASTIC THAN SOME ABOUT:
Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)

DOCUMENTARIES
Among Neighbors (Yoav Potash)
Democracy Noir (Connie Field)
Cover-Up (Mark Oberhaus, Laura Poitras)
River of Grass (Sasha Wortzel)
Orwell: 2+2=5 (Raoul Peck)
Predators (David Osit)
Flophouse America (Monica Strømdahl)
Reifenstahl (Andres Veiel)
Coexistence, My Ass! (Amber Fares)
Between the Sun and the Sidewalk (Helen de Michiel)
Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo)
Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry)
Helen and the Bear (Alix Blair)
Honorable mention: Koln 75 (Ido Fluk), partly a documentary

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