But two top-notch performances from Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins and a stellar script from Anthony McCarten turn this prosaic premise into a film worth watching.
Set in the wake of the Vatican leaks scandal and loosely inspired by true events it follows Cardinal Bergoglio as he tries to convince Pope Benedict XVI to accept his resignation.
The two men couldn't be more different — Benedict is an archconservative desperate to cling to tradition while Bergoglio is seen as a dangerous liberaliser who might erode the Church's authority. While the two men battle out their differences, the future of Catholicism hangs in the balance. If you've written off Adam Sandler as the doyen of crass, forgettable comedies then prepare to have your pigeonhole well and truly blown apart.
The actor puts in a career-best performance as Howard Ratner, a charismatic, fast-talking New York jeweller who is certain he's about to pull off the biggest deal of his life. All he needs is his precarious plan to go off without a hitch. What follows is a frenetic whirl of a film that careens deliciously between chaos and mirth, taking in an arresting film debut from former NBA player Kevin Garnett.
You'll finish the film exhausted, entertained and exhilarated. A Senegalese romance, a story of construction workers turned migrants and a paranormal revenge tale; Mati Diop's genre-busting Atlantics won the Grand Prix at Cannes last year. Netflix showed its impeccable taste in international films by picking it up.
The first time feature director takes her time as she follows seventeen year-old Ada, who is in love with Soulemaine — one of the workers at sea — but obliged to marry another man and Issa, a police officer who gets mixed up in the lives of Ada and the women left behind in Dakar. Diop uses genre tropes and traditional folklore to get under the skin of families, corruption and class in urban Senegal.
Don't pay attention to the reviews — American Son is well worth a watch on a rainy afternoon when you can't afford tickets to the theatre. This stage adaptation of a black mother's anguish over her missing son has changed little from a traditional play: it is claustrophobically contained inside the waiting room of a police station, which serves as the main setting for the show. Kerry Washington is masterful as Kendra, a mother openly desperate to find out where her 18 year old son is and blocked at every turn by an openly racist police officer.
It tackles segregation, racism, sexism and police brutality in one hour and 30 minutes in a way that will make your stomach churn. The film, like the play before it, generated a wealth of critics that felt its one note of anger and sometimes laboured dialogue failed to adequately tackle modern day racism. Does it fail as an important look at race relations? But it provides plenty to think about in a way that sticks in your mind long after it's over — and you'll watch a play in the the best seat in the house.
After the credits roll on Dolemite Is My Name , we guarantee you'll be 10, times more likely to go out and stage a horndog nude photo shoot for your next cult comedy record. Together with a madcap crew, they make a truly terrible Blaxploitation kung fu movie based on Moore's pimp alter ego, Dolemite. And with the cast flexing in Ruth Carter's glorious costumes — the suits!
How did a Panamanian law firm orchestrate the biggest global tax evasion operation of all time? In The Laundromat , Steven Soderbergh takes an incredibly dry yet important real story and makes it into one of the weirdest films released in the last year.
Meryl Streep plays a widow turned amateur detective whose husband could not collect insurance because it was tied to a shell company that doesn't exist — then bizarrely dresses up in disguise as a Panamanian employee. If you don't know about the scandal this film won't help to explain it, but it's certainly entertaining. Things seem rosy for all of five minutes in Marriage Story , which follows the protracted and heartbreaking divorce of a theatre director Adam Driver and his actor wife Scarlett Johansson.
Driver and Johansson put on a masterclass in emotionally honest acting, so it's little surprise the film has picked up nominations for Best Actor and Best Actress as well as a Best Supporting Actress nod for Laura Dern and further nominations for Best Screenplay and Original Score.
A breakup movie that is really about the joy of female friendship and the pain of growing old, Someone Great is powered by the chemistry between its three lead actors: Gina Rodriguez, Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise. Rodriguez stars as Jenny, a journalist who simultaneously lands her dream job in San Francisco and breaks up with her boyfriend of nine years.
To lift her out of her gloom, Jenny enlists her two best friends for one last adventure in New York City. Although the film sets itself up as a series of comic capers like Superbad or Dazed and Confused , it really finds its heart in the relationship between the three leads and their mutual support as they attempt to muddle through life — it's like picking up with the cast of Booksmart and finding out they've really gotten into drugs in the intervening 13 years.
Written by and starring Ali Wong and Randall Park, Always Be My Maybe tells the story of two inseparable childhood friends whose lives veer dramatically apart after a grief-stricken rendezvous in their teenage years.
Wong plays Sasha Tran, a superstar chef whose stratospheric career barely papers over the cracks in her faltering relationship. Park, meanwhile, plays Marcus Kim, whose ambitions have taken him no further than the local dive bar and his father's air conditioning firm. Sport is really about data. That's the view of baseball manager Billy Beane Brad Pitt , who can't compete with the big budgets of rival clubs.
To add salt to his wounds, three of his best players have just moved to a rival team. Instead of trying to raise more money, he decides to improve his Oakland Athletics side using statistics rather than tradition wisdom.
The movie, which was nominated for six Oscars including Best Actor and Best Picture, is based on the real-life story, and book, about the season of the Oakland Athletics baseball team. A compelling war drama film starring Idris Elba and shot in Ghana, it follows a young boy called Agu who lives in a small village, and who is forced to become a child soldier as his country is ripped apart by a brutal civil war.
This is a poignant depiction of the devastation that war can bring to a family. This is without doubt one of the best children's films of the s. Stop reading. Danny DeVito is at his ludicrous, comic best, while Mara Wilson is a perfect fit for the understated but mischievous lead role. Roma , Alfonso Cuaron's newest release since Gravity in , is very different from any film he's made before. Set against the backdrop of unrest in Mexico City in the early 's, the film follows Cleo Yalitizio Aparicia , who works as a housekeeper for a young, well-off family.
The specificity of the film arises from Cuaron's direction, as the film is based on the life of the nanny who raised him, Libo, and much of the mis-en-scene in the film is actually from his childhood. While the film is in black and white, and entirely in Chilango Spanish, it's incredibly moving and absorbing, especially given how gorgeous the cinematography and direction is.
Fans of Cuaron who have watched Gravity or Children of Men might be surprised, but this side of Cuaron is worth watching, and Roma is already generating Oscars buzz. A taut, clever crime thriller, Nightcrawler explores the world of 'stringers', freelance videographers who scour late night LA for violent events to film and then sell to local news TV stations. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Lou, who lucks into the trade and quickly discovers the profits to be made, especially when he bends the law for juicier material.
Desperate to feed demand and ratings, a local morning news director Rene Russo doesn't care how the footage is obtained so long as it's good. An outstanding central performance from Gyllenhaal, who lost weight to portray the desperate Lou, drives the action forward and it features an early Hollywood appearance for Riz Ahmed as his sidekick, Rick. Everyone in this period drama from director Dee Rees is trying to drag themselves out of the Mississippi mud, in one way or another.
Henry McAllan Jason Clarke moves his young family to a farm on the Mississippi delta, although his wife Laura Carey Mulligan is less than pleased by the news that he's also bringing his horribly racist father to live with them too.
The Jackson family are tenants on the farm, led by Hap Jackson Rob Morgan who hopes he can work his way out of sharecropping and own his own slice of land one day.
Annihilation is his second feature as a director and it's another serious, enthralling sci-fi exploration that's much better than its 'straight to Netflix' status would suggest.
Channelling a sci-fi horror vibe reminiscent of Soviet-era mind trip Stalker , Annihilation's main antagonist is a slowly expanding zone called The Shimmer in which all life is undergoing rapid and inexplicable mutation. A close adaptation of Harper Lee's seminal novel , "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a clear-eyed movie about race and justice in Alabama, and how adults teach us about the moral values that make up our lives. A cultural touchstone since its release, "Silence of the Lambs" is about an F.
Werner Herzog's documentary tries to answer a seldom-asked but essential question: Why would someone try to befriend grizzly bears? The more the movie looks into the life and soul of Timothy Treadwell — a man who did just that, before he was eaten by a bear — the more fascinating and horrifying the answers become.
A thinly fictionalized drama based on the assassination of Greece's politician Grigoris Lambrakis in , "Z" is a political conspiracy thriller about the killing of a prominent political activist and the government cover-up that follows.
The movie, directed by Costa-Gavras, has a knotty plot, but it also has a dark sense of humor and delivers a satire of the military dictatorship of Greece that resonated through Europe at the time. High school movies have a long tradition of updating classic British literature.
Aside from making James Dean the coolest person of the s, "Rebel Without a Cause" struck a chord about the struggles and contradictions of suburbia in a time when they were exploding in growth. Few movies have shown how sharply different generations can be. More of a visual poem than a narrative film, "The Tree of Life" starts at the beginning of the universe and traverses over to a young boy growing up in s Texas. Director Terrence Malick intersperses ideas about faith and one's role in the world while grappling with the conflicting teachings of different parents.
Its hero has an impossible moral quandary. The villain dominates each scene he's in. And the action scenes are just really freaking cool. But most importantly, "Black Panther" transcends the genre by being about something deeper than just the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Directed by Ryan Coogler, the movie creates a vision of an African nation untouched by colonialism, grappling with its own history instead of the problems other countries foisted upon it.
It's a clear-eyed, fully fledged world that you could only see at the movies. We're not saying "The Room" is a good movie, and that's exactly why you need to watch it. It may be the best worst movie that was ever made with some of the most quotable lines of dialogue around.
It inspired midnight showings across the country where millennials throw plastic spoons at the screen and yell out quotes such as "You are tearing me apart.
The animation in "Spider-Verse" feels like a comic book come to life. It's one of the best animated pictures of the past decade. It also won best animated picture at the Oscars. Bong Joon-Ho's "Parasite" is one of the best thrillers you can watch right now and you should go into it knowing next to nothing if possible. It became the first film in history to win both best picture and best international film at the Oscars in February.
You can read Insider's review here. After "Get Out," Jordan Peele returned to the director's chair to deliver another chilling look at society that will make you sit and ponder long after your first viewing. You'll immediately want to watch this one again. It's one of those rare movies that is completely different upon a second viewing. The Bonnie and Clyde-like thriller will leave you on the edge of your seat the entire time.
Its heartwrenching ending will render you speechless. Lena Waithe delivers an emotionally-charged story about the strength of community and the pitfalls of the justice system against African Americans. Anyone who has ever chosen studying over partying can relate to Amy Kaitlyn Dever and Molly Beanie Feldstein , two overachievers who panic once they realize their presumably average peers also got into great colleges while partying their way through school.
They think they can make up for lost time in one incredible night of debauchery. You can read Business Insider's review here. The largest pop-culture milestone of the past decade, Marvel's two-part finale became the biggest films in history. Robert Downey Jr. You can read our review for "Infinity War" here and for "Endgame" here. If you're looking for a light-hearted rom-com with an unexpected twist, "Crazy Stupid Love" has you covered.
The chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell and then Gosling and Emma Stone makes this a film you can easily watch over and over again. The rare sequel that may be better than it's predecessor, "Paddington 2," will give you hope during a bleak time and restore your faith in mankind. That sounds like a tall order, but it's the best-reviewed movie of As soon as you finish this film, you'll want to watch the first one.
It's OK if you watch them out of order. Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama are dignified and moving as parents who visit their children and grandchildren, only to be neglected. Bruce Willis versus the Gimp? Fun fact: Psycho is the first film to ever depict a toilet flushing. Forget the shower shenanigans, the end is creepy AF. Japanese cinema has produced no shortage of heavy hitters, but director Kenji Mizoguchi may deserve prime of place. He was able to turn out impeccable ghost stories Ugetsu and backstage dramas The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums , but his greatest trait was a deep, unshakable empathy for women, beaten down by the patriarchy but heartbreaking in their suffering.
These women are central to Sansho the Bailiff , a feudal tale of familial dissolution that will wreck you. Make no apologies for your tears; everyone else will be crying, too. One of the most romantic films ever made about the pains and purity of first love, the immaculately styled The Umbrellas of Cherbourg challenged the lighter Hollywood musicals of the era like The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady and launched the sensational Catherine Deneuve into international stardom.
Later, it would be a major influence on La La Land. Director Roman Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne took a modestly sleazy noir setup and turned it into a meditation on the horrors of American history and rapacious capitalism.
The film also sports a perfect cast, with a top-of-his-game Jack Nicholson as a cynical private eye, an impossibly alluring Faye Dunaway as the femme fatale with a past so dark her final revelation still shocks, and the legendary John Huston as the monstrous millionaire at the heart of it all. Not just any film gets homaged by Bill and Ted.
A time capsule of a vanished New York and a portrait of twisted masculinity that still stings, Taxi Driver stands at the peak of the vital, gritty auteur-driven filmmaking that defined s New Hollywood. A spin on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the same invitation to follow your imagination , Spirited Away has been ushering audiences into its dream world for almost two decades and seems only to grow in stature each year, a tribute to its hand-drawn artistry.
The first no-budget horror movie to become a bona-fide calling card for its director, George A. But nothing betters it for style, mordant wit, racial and political undertow, and scaring the bejesus out of you, all some 50 years before Us. This rousing Russian silent film was conceived in the heat of Soviet propaganda and commissioned by the still-young Communist government to salute an event from 20 years earlier.
But Battleship Potemkin is full of powerful images and heady ideas, and director Sergei Eisenstein is rightly considered one of the pioneers of early film language, with his influence felt through the decades. The only Charlie Chaplin movie to see the Little Tramp go on a massive cocaine binge, this relentlessly inventive silent classic hardly needs the added kick.
The gags come almost as fast as you can process them, with the typically pinpoint Chaplin slapstick conjured here from scenarios that seem purpose-built to end in disaster. The sight of Chaplin literally feeding himself into a massive machine offers a still-germane satire on technological advancement. It features Cubistic jump cuts, restless handheld camerawork, location shoots, eccentric pacing the minute centerpiece is two lovers talking in a bedroom , and self-conscious asides about painting, poetry, pop culture, literature and film.
A sexy fling between petty thief Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sorbonne-bound gamine Jean Seberg morphs into an oddly touching, existential meditation. Nuclear annihilation was a subject in which Kubrick immersed himself, reading virtually every unclassified text. His conclusion was grim: There would be no winning.
Via darkest comedy the only way into the subject and an unhinged Peter Sellers playing three separate parts, Kubrick made his point. M is like a sonar listening to a pre-Nazi Germany on the cusp of shedding its humanity. Set in eek! With a noir-inspired aesthetic and a haunting synth score by Vangelis a massive influence on Prince , Blade Runner is iconic not just for its era-defining look, but also for its deeper philosophical examination of what it means to be human.
The creative fecundity of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, dead from an overdose at age 37 after completing more than 40 features, deserves enshrinement by a new generation.
Few film movements can boast the hit rate of Italian neorealism, a post-WWII wave dedicated to working-class struggle that seems to comprise only masterpieces.
Robert Rossellini was responsible for a few of them, including Germany Year Zero and this earlier drama of repression and resistance, which boasts not one but two of the most memorable death scenes in all of cinema. Brace for the land of phantoms and the call of the Bird of Death: One of the earliest though unauthorized adaptations of Dracula is still the most terrifying. German Expressionist director F.
With about 6, zingers to choose from, everyone has their favorite Airplane! Onscreen comedy, in turn, was modernized for what would be its most transforming decade.
Our favorite joke? Hypnotic, bewitching, thought-provoking, disturbing, horrifying: However you react to it, you won't forget Jonathan Glazer's startling adaptation of Michel Faber's woman-who-fell-to-earth novel. Using her celebrity in a radical way, Scarlett Johansson is perfectly cast as an alien in human form who roams Glasgow trying to pick up men in her van.
It was shot guerrilla-style on the streets of the Scottish city, so look out for the footage of genuinely baffled passersby. Who knows at this point? It reimagined the Western genre and became a part of the zeitgeist.
Biting political satires don't have to be long and complicated: This minute masterpiece is perfectly pithy, exposing the absurdities of international politics with swift wit and spot-on slapstick. An unlikely pick? Not when you consider the low-budget sensation in a larger context. Pakula, actor-producer Robert Redford and screenwriter William Goldman created a hot-off-the-presses docudrama about the Watergate break-in that crackles with live-wire tension.
This is nose-to-the-grindstone investigative work in an analog world—think rotary phones, electric typewriters, handwritten notes on legal pads, red-pen edits and Xerox copiers—and a master class in making movie dialogue absolutely riveting.
The Bengali great follows young Apu Apurba Kumar Roy from boyhood to adult life via schooling and a move from his remote village to the big city, as well as loves and losses.
Boy meets train. Boy loses train. Boy chases Union forces who stole train, wins back train and fires off in the opposite direction. The title is still a killer piece of marketing, suggesting something much gorier than what you get. A grungy vision of horror captured during a palpably sweaty and stenchy Texas summer, the film has taken its rightful place as a definitive parable of Nixonian class warfare, eat-or-be-eaten social envy and the essentially unknowable nature of some unlucky parts of the world.
Like an Hieronymus Bosch masterpiece, the images here can never be unseen. In weaving their stories together, Mann presents dueling but equally weighted perspectives, with our allegiance as viewers constantly shifting.
With it, Pixar took storytelling to infinity and far, far beyond. Poetic, compassionate, angry, ironic: All human life is present here. But respect must be paid to the performer, too: In a decade of brilliant acting, no turn was quite as galvanizing as the one given by Gena Rowlands in this stunning peek into a fraying mind.
Quotable, endearing and bursting with creative moments, Annie Hall is one of the most revolutionary of romantic comedies. This quintessential New York movie turned countless viewers on to the joys of verbose dialogue and experimentation in menswear for women , and has long been lauded for both its accessibility and its poignancy, a balance that few movies have since achieved so memorably.
The cast was very much in on the joke: Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon are having a whale of a time in drag, while Monroe offers a typically beguiling mix of innocence and mischief. Hugely expensive for its time, Metropolis is Blade Runner , The Terminator and Star Wars all rolled into one not to mention 50 years prior. Not only did this smart and suggestively sexy pre-Code screwball shape every rom-com that followed, it still has a leg up on most of them.
The perfect action movie? The stunts are awesome, the dialogue is endlessly quotable, and Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman are a white-hat—black-hat duo straight out of a classic Western. A passion project that got clobbered by audiences and critics alike, The Thing was, in fact, that rarest of remakes: one that improves upon its source.
Writer-director Julie Dash should have become an Ava DuVernay-level success after her poetic feature debut, an achievement of otherworldly beauty. The first film made by an African-American woman to receive theatrical distribution, Daughters of the Dust is permeated with pride, history and matriarchal wisdom. Critics Consensus: Blockbuster dramatist James L. Directed By: James L. Critics Consensus: A beautiful, epic Western, Brokeback Mountain's love story is imbued with heartbreaking universality thanks to moving performances by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Directed By: Ang Lee. Directed By: George Roy Hill. Critics Consensus: Great performances and evocative musical numbers help Cabaret secure its status as a stylish, socially conscious classic. Directed By: Bob Fosse. The Cabinet of Dr. Directed By: Robert Wiene. Directed By: Luca Guadagnino.
Critics Consensus: Shaped by Todd Haynes' deft direction and powered by a strong cast led by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, Carol lives up to its groundbreaking source material. Directed By: Todd Haynes. Critics Consensus: An undisputed masterpiece and perhaps Hollywood's quintessential statement on love and romance, Casablanca has only improved with age, boasting career-defining performances from Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
Directed By: Michael Curtiz. Critics Consensus: Casino Royale disposes of the silliness and gadgetry that plagued recent James Bond outings, and Daniel Craig delivers what fans and critics have been waiting for: a caustic, haunted, intense reinvention of Directed By: Martin Campbell.
Critics Consensus: Children of Men works on every level: as a violent chase thriller, a fantastical cautionary tale, and a sophisticated human drama about societies struggling to live. Critics Consensus: As bruised and cynical as the decade that produced it, this noir classic benefits from Robert Towne's brilliant screenplay, director Roman Polanski's steady hand, and wonderful performances from Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.
Directed By: Roman Polanski. Critics Consensus: City of God offers a shocking and disturbing -- but always compelling -- look at life in the slums of Rio de Janiero. Directed By: Fernando Meirelles. Critics Consensus: Cinema Paradiso is a life-affirming ode to the power of youth, nostalgia, and the the movies themselves. Directed By: Giuseppe Tornatore. Critics Consensus: Orson Welles's epic tale of a publishing tycoon's rise and fall is entertaining, poignant, and inventive in its storytelling, earning its reputation as a landmark achievement in film.
Directed By: Orson Welles. Critics Consensus: One of the best underdog romance movies ever, with an ending that will light up any heart. Directed By: Charles Chaplin. Critics Consensus: With its quirky characters and clever, quotable dialogue, Clerks is the ultimate clarion call for slackers everywhere to unite and, uh, do something we guess?
Directed By: Kevin Smith. Critics Consensus: Disturbing and thought-provoking, A Clockwork Orange is a cold, dystopian nightmare with a very dark sense of humor. Critics Consensus: A funny and clever reshaping of Emma, Clueless offers a soft satire that pokes as much fun at teen films as it does at the Beverly Hills glitterati. Directed By: Amy Heckerling. Critics Consensus: Coco 's rich visual pleasures are matched by a thoughtful narrative that takes a family-friendly -- and deeply affecting -- approach to questions of culture, family, life, and death.
Directed By: Lee Unkrich. Critics Consensus: With a terrific cast and a surfeit of visual razzle dazzle, Crazy Rich Asians takes a satisfying step forward for screen representation while deftly drawing inspiration from the classic -- and still effective -- rom-com formula.
Directed By: Jon M. Critics Consensus: Creed brings the Rocky franchise off the mat for a surprisingly effective seventh round that extends the boxer's saga in interesting new directions while staying true to its classic predecessors' roots. Starring: Michael B. Critics Consensus: The movie that catapulted Ang Lee into the ranks of upper echelon Hollywood filmmakers, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon features a deft mix of amazing martial arts battles, beautiful scenery, and tasteful drama.
Critics Consensus: Dark, complex, and unforgettable, The Dark Knight succeeds not just as an entertaining comic book film, but as a richly thrilling crime saga. Directed By: Christopher Nolan. Critics Consensus: One of the most compelling and entertaining zombie films ever, Dawn of the Dead perfectly blends pure horror and gore with social commentary on material society.
Directed By: George Romero. Critics Consensus: Socially minded yet entertaining, The Day the Earth Stood Still imparts its moral of peace and understanding without didacticism. Directed By: Robert Wise. Critics Consensus: Featuring an excellent ensemble cast, a precise feel for the s, and a killer soundtrack, Dazed and Confused is a funny, affectionate, and clear-eyed look at high school life.
Directed By: Richard Linklater. Critics Consensus: Affecting performances from the young cast and a genuinely inspirational turn from Robin Williams grant Peter Weir's prep school drama top honors.
Directed By: Peter Weir. Critics Consensus: Its many imitators and sequels have never come close to matching the taut thrills of the definitive holiday action classic. Directed By: John McTiernan. Critics Consensus: Smart, vibrant, and urgent without being didactic, Do the Right Thing is one of Spike Lee's most fully realized efforts -- and one of the most important films of the s.
Directed By: Spike Lee. Critics Consensus: Framed by great work from director Sidney Lumet and fueled by a gripping performance from Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon offers a finely detailed snapshot of people in crisis with tension-soaked drama shaded in black humor.
Critics Consensus: Don't Look Now patiently builds suspense with haunting imagery and a chilling score -- causing viewers to feel Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie's grief deep within. Directed By: Nicolas Roeg. Critics Consensus: A dark, tautly constructed adaptation of James M.
Robinson , Porter Hall. Critics Consensus: Stanley Kubrick's brilliant Cold War satire remains as funny and razor-sharp today as it was in Starring: Peter Sellers , George C.
Scott , Keenan Wynn , Slim Pickens. Critics Consensus: Bela Lugosi's timeless portrayal of Dracula in this creepy and atmospheric film has set the standard for major vampiric roles since. Directed By: Tod Browning. Critics Consensus: With its hyper-stylized blend of violence, music, and striking imagery, Drive represents a fully realized vision of arthouse action.
Directed By: Nicolas Winding Refn. Directed By: Chia-Liang Liu. Critics Consensus: Fueled by inspired silliness and blessed with some of the Marx brothers' most brilliant work, Duck Soup is one of its -- or any -- era's finest comedies. Directed By: Leo McCarey. Critics Consensus: Playing as both an exciting sci-fi adventure and a remarkable portrait of childhood, Steven Spielberg's touching tale of a homesick alien remains a piece of movie magic for young and old.
Directed By: Steven Spielberg. Critics Consensus: Edgy and seminal, Easy Rider encapsulates the dreams, hopes, and hopelessness of s counterculture. Directed By: Dennis Hopper. Critics Consensus: The first collaboration between Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, Edward Scissorhands is a magical modern fairy tale with gothic overtones and a sweet center. Directed By: Tim Burton. Critics Consensus: Election successfully combines dark humor and intelligent writing in this very witty and enjoyable film.
Directed By: Alexander Payne. Critics Consensus: David Lynch's relatively straight second feature finds an admirable synthesis of compassion and restraint in treating its subject, and features outstanding performances by John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins.
Directed By: David Lynch. Critics Consensus: Badass to the max, Enter the Dragon is the ultimate kung-fu movie and fitting if untimely Bruce Lee swan song.
Directed By: Robert Clouse. Critics Consensus: Propelled by Charlie Kaufman's smart, imaginative script and Michel Gondry's equally daring directorial touch, Eternal Sunshine is a twisty yet heartfelt look at relationships and heartache. Directed By: Michel Gondry. Critics Consensus: Evil Dead 2 's increased special effects and slapstick-gore makes it as good -- if not better -- than the original.
Directed By: Sam Raimi. Critics Consensus: The Exorcist rides its supernatural theme to magical effect, with remarkable special effects and an eerie atmosphere, resulting in one of the scariest films of all time. Directed By: William Friedkin. Critics Consensus: The Farewell deftly captures complicated family dynamics with a poignant, well-acted drama that marries cultural specificity with universally relatable themes. Directed By: Lulu Wang. Critics Consensus: Violent, quirky, and darkly funny, Fargo delivers an original crime story and a wonderful performance by McDormand.
Macy , Peter Stormare. Critics Consensus: Sleek, loud, and over the top, Fast Five proudly embraces its brainless action thrills and injects new life into the franchise. Critics Consensus: While Fast Times at Ridgemont High features Sean Penn's legendary performance, the film endures because it accurately captured the small details of school, work, and teenage life. Critics Consensus: Solid acting, amazing direction, and elaborate production design make Fight Club a wild ride. Directed By: David Fincher.
Directed By: Andrea Arnold. Critics Consensus: Shakespeare gets the deluxe space treatment in Forbidden Planet, an adaptation of The Tempest with impressive sets and seamless special effects.
Directed By: Mike Newell. Critics Consensus: Still unnerving to this day, Frankenstein adroitly explores the fine line between genius and madness, and features Boris Karloff's legendary, frightening performance as the monster. Directed By: James Whale. Critics Consensus: Realistic, fast-paced and uncommonly smart, The French Connection is bolstered by stellar performances by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, not to mention William Friedkin's thrilling production.
Critics Consensus: Frida is a passionate, visually striking biopic about the larger-than-life artist. Directed By: Julie Taymor. Critics Consensus: Peter Weir's devastating anti-war film features a low-key but emotionally wrenching performance from Mel Gibson as a young soldier fighting in one of World War I's most deadly and horrifying battles.
Critics Consensus: Director Richard Attenborough is typically sympathetic and sure-handed, but it's Ben Kingsley's magnetic performance that acts as the linchpin for this sprawling, lengthy biopic.
Directed By: Richard Attenborough. Critics Consensus: Intelligent and scientifically provocative, Gattaca is an absorbing sci fi drama that poses important interesting ethical questions about the nature of science.
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