20 THE SISTERS BROTHERS

Director: Jacques Audiard

The first of Joaquin Phoenix’s appearances in our poll, this adaptation of Patrick dewitt’s novel placed Phoenix and John C Reilly as sibling assassins, stalking 1850s Orgeon in pursuit of their quarry. Coming so soon after the Coens’ The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, Audiard’s film suggests a welcome renaissance in picaresque, revisionist westerns.