Pi to Caught Stealing: obsession filmed at close range.
One love story across a conquistador, a scientist and a man in a bubble with a tree.
A paranoid mathematician finds a 216-digit number in the stock market; black-and-white, $60,000.
Natalie Portman's ballerina cracks under Swan Lake; Aronofsky's backstage horror.
Mickey Rourke as a broken-down wrestler on the New Jersey circuit; the comeback of both of them.
Four addicts in Coney Island through one year; Aronofsky's hip-hop montage and Clint Mansell's theme.
The flood as an environmental epic with rock angels; Russell Crowe builds the ark.
A house, a poet and an escalating allegory that empties cinemas; Jennifer Lawrence.
A former ballplayer in 1990s New York is handed a cat and the wrong people's problem.
Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter; his Oscar comeback.
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