46. The Florida Project (2017, dir. Sean Baker)
God bless Willem Dafoe. This frustrating, infuriating look at "not the best parents" in a slummy Florida motel is focused on the children, wild and vibrant, creatively and mischieviously resourceful, and the only custodian who cares to keep an eye on them is Dafoe's motel manager, a fundamentally decent man who's seen enough to know that none of this is going to end well for anyone. We, as a society, proved ourselves unworthy of Dafoe's saintly slither when we gave the Oscar to a cartoon racist instead.
God bless Willem Dafoe. This frustrating, infuriating look at "not the best parents" in a slummy Florida motel is focused on the children, wild and vibrant, creatively and mischieviously resourceful, and the only custodian who cares to keep an eye on them is Dafoe's motel manager, a fundamentally decent man who's seen enough to know that none of this is going to end well for anyone. We, as a society, proved ourselves unworthy of Dafoe's saintly slither when we gave the Oscar to a cartoon racist instead.
And there it is. Best film of the decade. This movie breaks me, just thinking about it.