Incendies
As much as I loved this, I was actually hoping I loved it more. That's how enormously high my expectations were. The brilliant part of the movie for me was the story, and to avoid spoilers I don't really want to comment on the specifics. It certainly was dark and powerful, and fit my taste well. It's the kind of movie that makes you feel ill with how much of the world is such a terrible place. It's filmed beautifully and is methodically paced. The reason it misses masterpiece status for me is because I thought the characters and performances were merely good. No complaints there, just nothing that especially stood out. Also, it could be momentarily hard to follow at times with the back and forth in time and events. Sometimes it took my wife and I a minute to figure out where we were. And plus those words that would show in bold on the screen, notifying the viewer of a person or place, were pretty indistinct to my pea brain. Those are not big problems as I was able to soon follow. A special shout out to whoever was responsible for the subtitles because they were very easy to read. My wife thought it was slow, but she enjoyed it and pretty much echoed my thoughts on everything. It'll do well on my list I'm sure.