10. Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
“Me And Earl And The Dying Girl” on paper sounds like Sundance gone wrong: a more meta and self-reflexive version of “The Fault In Our Stars.” It’s about a high school girl dying of cancer, the aimless teenage boy who befriends her and the taciturn black-kid best friend of the boy in question who also happens to be obsessed with making short-film recreations of classic cinephile films by Fellini, Godard, Kubrick and more. It’s a lovely, funny little jewel starring Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke with supporting help from more name actors Connie Britton, Nick Offerman, Molly Shannon and Jon Bernthal, ‘Earl And The Dying Girl’ is certainly a crowd-pleaser, arguably the perfect kind of summer indie movie, but it earns its laughs, along with its adolescent insights and tears. It features an amazing score of pre-existing and new Brian Eno tracks that make an already delightful and charming movie feel like it soars in all the right places.