So good that I have been forced to expand my 2015 Top 10 films list to 11. I could have added this into this year's but I need to keep the space free for what's to come.
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Grave of the Fireflies 1988
And that ladies and gentleman is my favourite Ghibli so far. Devastating.
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Under the Skin 2013
Fantastically unnerving, challenging and far from an easy watch. Comparisons with Kubrick and Lynch deserved. Scarlett Johansson has never been so good and the score by Mica Levi is haunting.
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Withnail & I 1987
With a shadow of a doubt, one of my top 10 favourite films of all time. Proof if ever you need it that in order to produce a successful movie you firstly need a stellar script. At turns hilarious then tragic it features a career defining performance from Richard E Grant and admirable support from Paul McGann and Richard Griffiths.
You can feel the decay of a decade, of a generation's hopes and of youth's optimism in the story told…