"The last ten years have seen filmmakers burst onto the scene in dynamite fashion, from Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014) to Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014), Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017) to Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018), Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017) to Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade (2018). The first film seems a crucial one that lays the foundations for the films to come; Peele followed his critically acclaimed debut with another excruciating dark horror film, Us (2019), Aster topped his with another dark rumination of the human condition in Midsommar (2019), and Garland truly proved how far science fiction could take narrative cinema with his film, Annihilation (2018).
Throughout cinema history there have been countless great films made by countless great filmmakers. But the works that have come to define the great filmographies have to start somewhere, have to have a beginning."
