This Best Picture front-runner is shot in glorious black and white, and, through a series of detailed vignettes, paints a vibrant picture of the socioeconomic realities of Mexico City in the 1970s wired.trib.al/JbN30bG 2/
In this film, Wes Anderson uses stop-motion animation with dystopian themes to imagine a Japanese community facing a dangerous outbreak of canine influenza threatening to spread to the area’s human citizens wired.trib.al/JbN30bG 3/
Bing Liu spent over 12 years filming his skateboard-loving friends in his hometown to create this documentary, which offers an intimate look at the process of growing up while reckoning with your upbringing wired.trib.al/JbN30bG 4/
In this film, semi-reluctant King of Wakanda T'Challa struggles to reconcile his new position with his superhero abilities—making it the rare movie that manages to integrate action with a social message wired.trib.al/JbN30bG 5/
The film follows the decades-long relationship of a celebrated novelist and his doting wife, who has pushed aside her dreams of being a writer to support her husband… and ghost-write his books wired.trib.al/JbN30bG 6/
Wife, mother, Supreme Court justice, badass: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the unlikeliest of heroes, but just the kind we need. This is how a soft-spoken girl from Brooklyn became one of the nation's most powerful voices. wired.trib.al/JbN30bG 7/