Baz Luhrmann sets 1900 Paris to Elton John and Nirvana, and gets away with it.
Virginia Woolf, a 1950s housewife and a New York editor, in one day each, across three eras.
The week after Dallas, seen entirely from inside Jacqueline Kennedy.
A British agent fights her way through Berlin in November 1989, in one seven-minute stairwell take.
Charlize Theron unrecognisable as Aileen Wuornos, in the performance that won her the Oscar.
Ari Aster's three-hour anxiety dream about a man trying to visit his mother.
Johnny Cash from Folsom Prison back to Sun Records, sung by the actors themselves.
Dick Cheney assembles the modern American presidency in the background of every frame.
A factory worker who has not slept in a year, played by an actor who lost thirty kilos to do it.
A Wall Street banker, a business card and a chainsaw; the satire people keep mistaking for a role model.
A newly single father is taught how to dress by a man who turns out to be dating his daughter.
Neil Armstrong to the Moon, shot from inside the helmet and told through a father who cannot talk about his daughter.
A private eye and a hired thug bumble through 1977 Los Angeles; the funniest thing either actor has done.
Richard Williams coaching Venus and Serena on public courts in Compton, to a plan he wrote before they were born.
The last man in an empty Manhattan, talking to shop mannequins and hunting deer on Fifth Avenue.
A salesman and his son sleeping in a station toilet while he works an unpaid internship.
Ten years of Muhammad Ali, from Liston to the Rumble in the Jungle.
Alien ships over every capital city, and a July 4th counterattack flown by a marine and a cable guy.
Two agents in black suits neuralyse New York; the alien comedy that defined a summer.
One night, one taxi and a grey-haired contract killer working through a list; Los Angeles shot on digital.
A Vietnam volunteer comes home paralysed and turns against the war that sent him.
You want the truth: a military courtroom drama built entirely to reach one Jack Nicholson speech.
A sports agent writes an honest memo, loses everything, and keeps one client.
Maverick, Goose and the volleyball; the film that made naval aviation a recruiting poster.
Philip K. Dick rotoscoped: an undercover narcotics officer assigned to watch himself.
A chain-smoking exorcist with lung cancer bargaining his way out of hell.
A young lawyer joins a New York firm run by Al Pacino, who is also Satan.
The Iliad as a summer blockbuster, with Pitt as an Achilles who fights like a dancer.
Two centuries of Lestat and Louis, in the adaptation Anne Rice initially hated and then took out an advert to praise.
Gilliam's time-loop plague film, with Pitt twitching his way to an Oscar nomination.
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