Godzilla attacks a defeated Japan in 1947; the $15 million film that beat Hollywood's effects.
Natalie Portman studies Julianne Moore for a film about her tabloid marriage; Todd Haynes.
Emma Stone as a woman with an infant's brain discovering the world; Lanthimos' Victorian fantasy.
A teacher, a student and a cook stuck at a boarding school over Christmas 1970; Paul Giamatti.
A cat on his last life hunted by a wolf called Death; the Shrek spin-off nobody expected to be great.
Something in the sky above a Californian horse ranch; Jordan Peele's UFO western.
Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter; his Oscar comeback.
A luxury cruise, a Marxist captain, a storm at dinner and an island where the cleaner rules.
A detective falls for the widow he is investigating; Park Chan-wook's Hitchcockian romance.
Two revolutionaries in 1920s India, a tiger, a motorbike and "Naatu Naatu"; Tollywood at full scale.
A woman remembers a Turkish holiday with her young father through camcorder footage; Charlotte Wells' debut.
Cate Blanchett as a conductor whose power comes apart in Berlin; Todd Field's return.
A man stops being his friend's friend on an Irish island in 1923, and starts cutting off fingers.
Tom Cruise back in the cockpit thirty-six years later, with real jets; the film that reopened cinemas.
Branagh's childhood in 1969 Belfast in black and white, with Van Morrison.
Nicolas Cage as a truffle hunter whose pig is stolen; not the revenge film it looks like.
Dev Patel as Gawain riding to meet his beheading; Lowery's Arthurian mood piece.
Kristen Stewart as Diana over one Christmas at Sandringham; a fable, not a biopic.
A woman with a titanium plate has sex with a car and hides as a missing son; the Palme d'Or that shocked.
A 15-year-old actor and a 25-year-old in the San Fernando Valley of 1973; PTA's hang-out film.
Benedict Cumberbatch as a cruel Montana rancher and the boy who undoes him; Campion's Oscar.
A hunter's daughter in Cromwell's Ireland becomes a wolf at night; Cartoon Saloon's hand-drawn peak.
Two wedding guests stuck in the same day; the time loop as romantic comedy.
Anthony Hopkins with dementia, in a flat that keeps changing; his second Oscar at 83.
Carey Mulligan pretends to be drunk to catch predators; Emerald Fennell's candy-coloured revenge.
A drummer loses his hearing and enters a deaf community; Riz Ahmed and the sound design.
A Korean family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas; Youn Yuh-jung's Oscar as the grandmother.
Married now, in the Peloponnese, with the argument in the hotel room.
Nine years later, Jesse and Celine walk through Paris in real time; "baby, you are gonna miss that plane".
Damon and Greengrass return; Athens riots and a Las Vegas car chase.
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