Gary Oldman as Churchill in May 1940, and the speech in the Underground.
Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding, the Nancy Kerrigan attack told as mockumentary.
Robert Pattinson through one New York night trying to free his brother; the Safdies' breakthrough.
A surgeon must kill one of his family or a boy's curse takes them all; Lanthimos' Greek tragedy.
A getaway driver who times every chase to his playlist; Edgar Wright's musical heist.
Taika Waititi turns Thor into a comedy with a gladiator Hulk and Led Zeppelin.
Gal Gadot crosses No Man's Land in 1918; the first superhero blockbuster directed by a woman.
An old Wolverine and a dying Professor X on a road trip; the superhero film as western.
A six-year-old in a purple motel next to Disney World; Sean Baker and Willem Dafoe.
Ryan Reynolds' foul-mouthed mercenary breaks the fourth wall; the R-rated superhero hit.
A foster kid and his grumpy uncle on the run in the New Zealand bush; Taika Waititi before Marvel.
A bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey writes poems for a week; Jarmusch's gentlest film.
Isabelle Huppert is raped and refuses to be a victim; Verhoeven's most provocative film.
A father in false teeth stalks his consultant daughter around Bucharest; the funniest German film.
A conscientious objector saves 75 men at Okinawa without a rifle; Mel Gibson's war film.
Two brothers rob the bank that is foreclosing on their ranch; a modern Texas western.
Casey Affleck returns to a Massachusetts fishing town to raise his nephew; grief without relief.
A jazz pianist and an actress in Los Angeles; the freeway opening and the ending that hurts.
One continuous take across a Berlin night, a bank robbery included.
Apollo's son trains with Rocky in Philadelphia; the series reborn by Ryan Coogler.
The 2008 crash explained by Margot Robbie in a bath; McKay makes finance a comedy.
DiCaprio mauled by a bear and crawling through winter for revenge; his Oscar at last.
Tom Cruise dies and repeats a D-Day against aliens; Groundhog Day as a war film.
A 1970s paranoid thriller inside a superhero film; the elevator fight.
A talking raccoon, a tree and a Walkman; Marvel's space opera comedy.
London gay activists support a Welsh mining village in the 1984 strike; the true story.
Martin Luther King and the 1965 march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Six Argentine stories of revenge, from a plane full of enemies to a wedding.
A father runs from an avalanche and leaves his family; a marriage dissects itself over a ski week.
A pop-up book monster and a grieving mother; Australian horror about depression.
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