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48 of 48 films
In the Mood for Love
✓Wong Kar-wai · 2000
The most beautiful film ever made. Longing, restraint, and the tragedy of timing.
Past Lives
✓Celine Song · 2023
In-yun. The paths we take and the ones we don't.
Minari
✓Lee Isaac Chung · 2020
The American Dream through a Korean-American family. Water celery and perseverance.
If Beale Street Could Talk
✓Barry Jenkins · 2018
Baldwin's prose brought to life. Love as resistance.
The Brutalist
✓Brady Corbet · 2024
Architecture as art and obsession. The immigrant experience and creative vision.
American Fiction
✓Cord Jefferson · 2023
Sharp satire on race and publishing. Percival Everett's wit.
The Substance
✓Coralie Fargeat · 2024
Body horror and beauty standards. Grotesque and unforgettable.
Interstellar
✓Christopher Nolan · 2014
Love transcends time and space. Hans Zimmer's organ.
Parasite
✓Bong Joon-ho · 2019
Class warfare as a genre-defying masterpiece.
Burning
✓Lee Chang-dong · 2018
Slow-burning mystery. Murakami adapted to devastating effect.
Phantom Thread
✓Paul Thomas Anderson · 2017
Fashion, control, and twisted love. DDL's final performance.
Moonlight
✓Barry Jenkins · 2016
Identity, masculinity, and tenderness. Three chapters of becoming.
The Shape of Water
✓Guillermo del Toro · 2017
Cold War fairy tale. Del Toro's love letter to monsters and outsiders.
Spotlight
✓Tom McCarthy · 2015
Journalism as it should be. The Boston Globe exposes systemic abuse.
Birdman
✓Alejandro González Iñárritu · 2014
One continuous shot. Keaton's comeback about comebacks.
Argo
✓Ben Affleck · 2012
Fake movie, real rescue. Hollywood saves the day.
12 Years a Slave
✓Steve McQueen · 2013
Solomon Northup's memoir. Unflinching and essential.
The Lobster
✓Yorgos Lanthimos · 2015
Find a partner or become an animal. Lanthimos at his most absurd.
Poor Things
✓Yorgos Lanthimos · 2023
Frankenstein meets feminist awakening. Maximalist and joyful.
The Favourite
✓Yorgos Lanthimos · 2018
Queen Anne's court. Three women, zero trust, seventeen rabbits.
The Big Short
✓Adam McKay · 2015
The 2008 crash explained with celebrity cameos and rage.
Little Women
✓Greta Gerwig · 2019
Gerwig's structural genius. The March sisters, non-linearly.
The Pianist
✓Roman Polanski · 2002
Szpilman's survival. Brody's gaunt, devastating performance.
Bottle Rocket
✓Wes Anderson · 1996
Where it all began. The Wilson brothers rob a bookstore.
Rushmore
✓Wes Anderson · 1998
Max Fischer's extracurriculars. Murray's career revival starts here.
The Royal Tenenbaums
✓Wes Anderson · 2001
Prodigies grown up and broken. Needle drops and raccoon coats.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
✓Wes Anderson · 2004
Jacques Cousteau meets midlife crisis. Portuguese Bowie covers.
The Darjeeling Limited
✓Wes Anderson · 2007
Three brothers, one train, too much baggage. India in pastels.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
✓Wes Anderson · 2009
Stop-motion Roald Dahl. Different, but cussing good.
Moonrise Kingdom
✓Wes Anderson · 2012
Two kids, one island, scout camp chaos. Pure and strange.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
✓Wes Anderson · 2014
Gustave H. and Zero. Anderson's most beloved, for good reason.
Isle of Dogs
✓Wes Anderson · 2018
Japanese dystopia, exiled dogs. Stop-motion political fable.
The French Dispatch
✓Wes Anderson · 2021
New Yorker magazine as film. Three stories, maximum Anderson.
Asteroid City
✓Wes Anderson · 2023
Desert, aliens, grief. A play within a film within a broadcast.
Following
✓Christopher Nolan · 1998
$6000 budget, shot on weekends. The DNA of everything after.
Memento
✓Christopher Nolan · 2000
Reverse chronology. Can you trust your own memory?
Insomnia
✓Christopher Nolan · 2002
Alaska, no darkness, no sleep. Williams against type.
Batman Begins
✓Christopher Nolan · 2005
Why do we fall? The grounded Batman we needed.
The Prestige
✓Christopher Nolan · 2006
Rival magicians. Are you watching closely?
The Dark Knight
✓Christopher Nolan · 2008
Ledger's Joker. Chaos as ideology. A superhero crime epic.
Inception
✓Christopher Nolan · 2010
Dreams within dreams. The spinning top never stops.
The Dark Knight Rises
✓Christopher Nolan · 2012
Bane's voice, broken Batman. The trilogy ends.
Dunkirk
✓Christopher Nolan · 2017
Three timelines, pure survival. Zimmer's ticking clock.
Tenet
✓Christopher Nolan · 2020
Time inversion. Don't try to understand it, feel it.
Oppenheimer
✓Christopher Nolan · 2023
The father of the atomic bomb. Three hours of dread.
Whiplash
✓Damien Chazelle · 2014
Not quite my tempo. J.K. Simmons as a jazz tyrant.
Hereditary
✓Ari Aster · 2018
Family trauma as horror. That dinner scene. That car scene.
The Farewell
✓Lulu Wang · 2019
Based on an actual lie. East meets West through a fake wedding.
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