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Jan 3, 2024 · The Best American Independent Films of the 21st Century. IndieWire staffers decide the best indie movies of the past two-plus decades, from Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" and Sean...
1. Reservoir Dogs (1992) R | 99 min | Crime, Thriller. 8.3. Rate. 81 Metascore. When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn. Votes: 1,087,347 | Gross: $2.83M. 2.
25 titles. 1. Do the Right Thing (1989) R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama. 8. Rate. 93 Metascore. On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson.
Oct 18, 2018 · The 30 Best (Truly) Independent Films of the 21st Century. By Adam Nayman Oct 18, 2018, 5:50am EDT. Ringer illustration. In 2018, it’s harder than ever to be independent in the world of...
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- God's Own Country
- Sightseers
- Local Hero
- Bait
- Get Out
- Rocks
- The Squid and The Whale
- Winter's Bone
- Parasite
- Whiplash
Esquire pal Josh O'Connor and Alec Secăreanu star in Francis Lee's quiet, bruising, hopeful, gorgeous, ugly story about two West Yorkshire farm workers who grudgingly realise that they really, really fancy each other. Johnny (O'Connor) runs his family farm following his dad's stroke, and cares for his grandma at the same time. It's a lonely busines...
If you're after a bit more of northern England but aren't quite feeling having your emotions wrung in quite the same way, try Ben Wheatley's dry serial killer travelogue. Caravan fan Nick (Steve Oram) is taking his girlfriend Tina (Alice Lowe) on a road trip so they can spend some quality time away from Tina's mum and hit up some excellent regional...
Bill Forsyth is one of the architects of what we now think of as British indie cinema. Between Local Hero and Gregory's Girl, there's a rich seam of the kind of offbeat warmth and regional pride which has prevailed since in the likes of Brassed Off, Made in Dagenham and The Full Monty. Fresh from Houston, Texas, 'Mac' MacIntyre turns up in rural Sc...
A black-and-white movie, shot on grainy 16mm, about the troubles of a Cornish fisherman told through stilted dialogue? You’d be forgiven if this film passed you by in 2019, but you should make it your mission to seek this out. Written and directed by Mark Jenkin - who won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut for the film - it weaves the yarn of Martin W...
When an indie film makes it into the current lexicon, that’s when you know it’s really hit its cultural moment. What starts out as a Meet The Fockers-type rom-com swiftly pivots into something much, much darker, as Rose (Girls’ Allison Williams) takes her boyfriend, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), home for the weekend. Alarm bells start ringing when Rose’s...
One of the most arresting films of last year, Rocks(directed by Sarah Gavron) reminds us that everyone - even teenagers - is fighting battles we know nothing about. When Rocks’ (Bukky Bakray) mother leaves home, she’s left to covertly care for her little brother Emmanuel (D’angelou Osei Kissiedu), in the hope that social services don’t find out and...
There was considerable hoo-ha surrounding director Noah Baumbach’s recent intense divorce drama, Marriage Story, not only because of the stand-out performances from Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, but also the speculation about its relation to Baumbach’s own split from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. But for a slightly lighter take on divorce (em...
Set in the rural Ozarks, director Debra Granik’s adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel of the same name is a gritty, engrossing drama about 17-year-old Ree Dolly, played by Jennifer Lawrence, who is trying to hold her impoverished family together after her meth-manufacturing pop skips out on them. Matters take an even darker turn when she discovers...
Director Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy – about a poor family, the Kims, fraudulently entering the service of a wealthy family, the Parks – was one of the most talked-about films of 2019, not just for its shockingly stark portrayal of wealth disparity in South Korean society, but also because it was the very first foreign language film to win the “bes...
Made on a tiny budget and shot in just 19 days, this 2014 film from Damien Chazelle (La La Land, First Man) is electrifying from start to finish. Following young student Andrew (Miles Teller) at Shaffer Conservatory, a prestigious New York music school, Whiplash documents the rigorous practice schedule and abusive treatment the students suffer unde...
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Nov 14, 2023 · Read on for our list of the 30 best, most overlooked independent films currently streaming on Netflix. Entries are listed in no particular order. Zack Sharf contributed to this story. [Editor’s...
Oct 2, 2018 · Independent film's best works prove that talented directors don't need to move to NY or LA. Here are the top 50 Indie movies you need to watch right now. By. MattBarone, Brenden...
