1. Under the Skin
2. Stranger by the Lake
3. The Immigrant
4. Boyhood
5. Inherent Vice
6. Two Days, One Night
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. Only Lovers Left Alive
9. Stray Days
10. Force Majeure
2. Stranger by the Lake. In which a Gallic neo-Hitchcock charts out the undulations of what the French refer to as "little deaths," and then sets a Grimm fairy tale in the dead zone representing that throbbing, nobly malignant impulse deep within the limbic system of all gay men. And inadvertently explains why so many puffy-chested boys who struggle to accept remaining "just friends" with their closest objects of desire (indeed, denying the psychological damage that doing so will absolutely wreak) cry every time Britney Spears sings about the world ending
Let me add it to my year-end list.