Nicolas Cage as a truffle hunter whose pig is stolen; not the revenge film it looks like.
Married now, in the Peloponnese, with the argument in the hotel room.
Ralph Fiennes runs the election of a pope; a thriller set entirely inside the Vatican.
Anthony Hopkins with dementia, in a flat that keeps changing; his second Oscar at 83.
Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, ending with twenty minutes of Live Aid recreated.
Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies suspecting each other; Soderbergh's chamber thriller.
Branagh's childhood in 1969 Belfast in black and white, with Van Morrison.
Twin brothers open a juke joint in 1932 Mississippi and vampires arrive; Coogler and Michael B. Jordan.
A surgeon must kill one of his family or a boy's curse takes them all; Lanthimos' Greek tragedy.
Benedict Cumberbatch as a cruel Montana rancher and the boy who undoes him; Campion's Oscar.
A Murakami story of a missing girl and a rich man who burns greenhouses; Lee Chang-dong.
Gary Oldman as Churchill in May 1940, and the speech in the Underground.
A pianist and a singer across the Iron Curtain from 1949 to 1964, in black-and-white square frames.
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson divorce between LA and New York; the argument scene.
Nine years later, Jesse and Celine walk through Paris in real time; "baby, you are gonna miss that plane".
Godzilla attacks a defeated Japan in 1947; the $15 million film that beat Hollywood's effects.
A family stages a wedding so they can say goodbye to a grandmother who does not know she is dying.
The last week of middle school for an anxious girl who makes YouTube videos; Bo Burnham's debut.
Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter; his Oscar comeback.
A drummer loses his hearing and enters a deaf community; Riz Ahmed and the sound design.
Shakespeare's wife and the death of their son, and the play that came from it; Chloe Zhao's Maggie O'Farrell.
A woman with a titanium plate has sex with a car and hides as a missing son; the Palme d'Or that shocked.
Antonio Banderas as an ageing director looking back; Almodovar's autobiography.
Kristen Stewart as Diana over one Christmas at Sandringham; a fable, not a biopic.
A six-year-old in a purple motel next to Disney World; Sean Baker and Willem Dafoe.
George Clooney as a law-firm fixer and Tilda Swinton sweating; the best legal thriller of its decade.
Boarding-school children raised as organ donors; Ishiguro's quiet dystopia.
Brad Pitt rebuilds the Oakland A's with statistics; Sorkin makes maths tense.
Matthew McConaughey as a Texan smuggling AIDS drugs in 1985; he and Jared Leto both won Oscars.
Apollo's son trains with Rocky in Philadelphia; the series reborn by Ryan Coogler.
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