Ive seen a few good things recently.
Mandy. Obviously got a lot of attention, probably justified. The first half is slightly unsettling & dreamlike - Lynch meets Jordowsky, absolutely beautiful melding of visuals and audio, rivalling Bladerunner in that respect. The second half is something else entirely. It has been hailed as an arthouse revenge flick, but what was missed in a lot of the reviews is the sheer nastiness... sustained and devastating emotional and physical suffering, excessive gore and extreme violence - somewhere between I spit on your grave, TCM, Friday 13th 2, Evil dead (1), Fury Road & Hostel. Certainly worth checking out, but not for the faint hearted.
Black 47. Dunno how much traction this got outside of Ireland but every English person should watch it. Perhaps the only thing Ive ever seen that goes anyway to portraying the reality of the famine. The politics is laid on fairly thickly and the narrative skeleton is a bit flimsy, but generally good performances and decent cast. The depiction of context - the kangaroo courts, the death and disease, the feckless and callous landlords, the 'tumbling' of house roofs to evict tenants, the exporting of grain - all true and supported by documentation. Ive read the history, walked some of those roads in the west and imagined those exact scenes.