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Best of the Decade 2010–2019

ROMA 2018

Alfonso Cuarón’s extraordinary film-as-remembrance is drawn from the director’s own upper-middle-class upbringing in Mexico City in the 1970s. But it’s hardly about him at all: his focus is on the women who raised him, particularly a household servant named Cleo, played beautifully by Yalitza Aparicio. Glorious and tender, Roma invites us into a world of memory—and although these memories belong to someone else, by the film’s end, they somehow belong to us too.

THE LOST CITY OF Z 2017

Director James Gray is an old-style craftsman: he’s unafraid of intense emotions, written out in a bold yet fine-grained filmmaking language. adapted from David Grann’s 2009 book, Charlie Hunnam stars as real-life British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazonian jungle in 1925 while seeking a lost civilization. Pictures with the grand sweep and dreamy energy of are rare. This is itself a message in a bottle, a missive from a lost world of movies.

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