Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as married spies suspecting each other; Soderbergh's chamber thriller.
Anthony Hopkins with dementia, in a flat that keeps changing; his second Oscar at 83.
Godzilla attacks a defeated Japan in 1947; the $15 million film that beat Hollywood's effects.
A pianist and a singer across the Iron Curtain from 1949 to 1964, in black-and-white square frames.
Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter; his Oscar comeback.
Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles build the GT40 to beat Ferrari at Le Mans 1966.
Ralph Fiennes runs the election of a pope; a thriller set entirely inside the Vatican.
Two cousins on a Holocaust tour of Poland; Kieran Culkin's Oscar.
Benedict Cumberbatch as a cruel Montana rancher and the boy who undoes him; Campion's Oscar.
Gary Oldman as Churchill in May 1940, and the speech in the Underground.
Married now, in the Peloponnese, with the argument in the hotel room.
A Murakami story of a missing girl and a rich man who burns greenhouses; Lee Chang-dong.
A drummer loses his hearing and enters a deaf community; Riz Ahmed and the sound design.
Tilda Swinton as the mother of a school shooter, before and after.
The 2008 crash explained by Margot Robbie in a bath; McKay makes finance a comedy.
Strange punishments in a German village in 1913, in black and white; Haneke on the roots of fascism.
A wedding and a planet on a collision course with Earth; von Trier on depression.
Isabelle Huppert is raped and refuses to be a victim; Verhoeven's most provocative film.
A marriage at its start and its end, cut together; Gosling and Williams.
A jazz pianist and an actress in Los Angeles; the freeway opening and the ending that hurts.
Casey Affleck returns to a Massachusetts fishing town to raise his nephew; grief without relief.
Two estranged brothers meet in the final of an MMA tournament; Nick Nolte as their father.
A schoolgirl and a blue-haired art student in Lille; the Palme d'Or given to the actresses too.
Six stories across five centuries with the same actors; the Wachowskis and Tykwer's huge gamble.
Brad Pitt rebuilds the Oakland A's with statistics; Sorkin makes maths tense.
Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway singing live on set and the barricades of 1832.
George Clooney as a law-firm fixer and Tilda Swinton sweating; the best legal thriller of its decade.
Apollo's son trains with Rocky in Philadelphia; the series reborn by Ryan Coogler.
A kindergarten teacher accused by a child; a Danish village turns on Mads Mikkelsen.
Bruce Dern drives to collect a sweepstakes prize that does not exist, in black and white.
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