The hunt for Korea's first serial killer in the 1980s; Bong Joon-ho's ending stare.
Four children abandoned in a Tokyo flat, based on a true case; the boy won Best Actor at Cannes at 14.
One day at a family reunion for a dead son; Kore-eda's Ozu film.
A class of schoolchildren forced to fight to the death on an island; the film The Hunger Games was accused of copying.
A former bully seeks out the deaf girl he tormented; Kyoto Animation on guilt.
A girl closes doors that release earthquakes across Japan, with a chair for company.
A runaway and a girl who can stop the rain in a Tokyo of endless downpours.
A Tokyo boy and a country girl swap bodies, and a comet approaches; the anime hit of 2016.
Three homeless people find a baby on Christmas Eve in Tokyo; Kon's warm one.
An actress's life and her film roles blur across Japanese history; Kon's tenderest film.
A trucker helps a widow perfect her ramen shop; the "ramen western" and the egg-yolk scene.
A mechanic recognises the man who tortured him in prison; Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or.
An estranged film-director father offers his actress daughter a role in a house full of memories; Joachim Trier.
Two conspiracy theorists kidnap a CEO they think is an alien; Lanthimos and Emma Stone again.
Shakespeare's wife and the death of their son, and the play that came from it; Chloe Zhao's Maggie O'Farrell.
A Navy SEAL platoon in Ramadi in 2006, reconstructed in real time from memory; Garland and Ray Mendoza.
Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies suspecting each other; Soderbergh's chamber thriller.
Robert Pattinson dies and is reprinted on an ice planet; Bong Joon-ho's English-language satire.
James Gunn reboots Superman with Krypto the dog; the start of the new DC.
Brad Pitt as a veteran driver back in Formula One, shot at real Grands Prix.
The rage virus three decades on, an island community and a boy's journey to the mainland; Boyle and Garland reunite.
Every child in one class walks out of their homes at 2:17 a.m. and vanishes; Zach Cregger's horror.
Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up revolutionary hunted by Sean Penn; PTA's Pynchon action film.
Eggers remakes Murnau with Bill Skarsgard's moustached count and Lily-Rose Depp.
Two cousins on a Holocaust tour of Poland; Kieran Culkin's Oscar.
War photographers drive to a besieged Washington in a near-future America; Alex Garland.
Zendaya between two tennis players over thirteen years; Guadagnino and a techno score.
Ralph Fiennes runs the election of a pope; a thriller set entirely inside the Vatican.
Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect in postwar Pennsylvania, in VistaVision with an intermission.
Demi Moore injects a younger self out of her spine; Fargeat's body-horror satire.
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