This has been a difficult year, but even in difficult times, movies are still one of the most extraordinary ways for humans to talk to one another.
The ten titles I share with you here are movies that have helped me through this fraught and sometimes confounding year.
I hope you'll find your way to at least some of them, and perhaps one or two or more will find a home in you.
French filmmaker Luc Besson has long specialized in fantastic flights of fantasy and shockeroo violence.
But he's never made a film as tender as DogMan.
Caleb Landry Jones' Douglas is a wounded human being, a survivor of childhood abuse, who finds solace in living with his community of dogs.
DogMan is about the families we choose, sometimes more sustaining than the ones we're born into.
It's also the perfect movie for those days you're convinced that dogs are better than people — even if that's every day.
This wordless animated wonder from Latvia, follows a nameless black cat as he travels across a flooded world, in a boat shared by a stalwart capybara, a clumsy-friendly dog, an opportunistic lemur, and a stately, long-legged secretary bird.
Elegant and spare, this is an environmental parable that doesn't hammer away at its message.
