On the surface, Foxtrot is yet another movie about loss–the unbearable grief of parents bereaving the death of their soldier-son while on duty.  But Maoz is such a bright and ambitious writer-director that it’s the film’s broader socio-cultural contexts and rich subtexts in which the tale is placed that make Foxtrot so devastating and impactful.

A highlight of the movie year, Call Me By Your Name is one of the most tender coming-of-age and lyrical gay romantic stories ever made, perfectly cast with Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet.

An intriguing variation of the ripple-effect narrative, The Insult is a movie in which a small gesture, a minor remark inevitably lead to increasingly bigger conflicts to the point where the initial argument spirals completely out of control.

But the main reason I wanted Tom Cruise is that my actors are my partners in my movies–Doug Liman