A disgraced radio host and a homeless medievalist in New York; Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges.
The Penguin, Catwoman and a Gotham of black ice; the darker Burton Batman.
Depp's Wonka and a factory of Oompa-Loompas played by one actor.
The tallest tales, staged at ruinous cost; the moon, a whale and a cannonball ride.
A dying father's tall tales, and the son who checks them; Burton's warmest film.
An advertising director is taken for Sancho Panza; thirty years and nine attempts to make it.
A girl alone in a prairie house with her father's corpse and her doll heads; Gilliam's most disliked film.
A travelling show with a mirror to other worlds; finished after Heath Ledger died, by three actors.
Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and Dracula in Victorian London; Eva Green's possession scenes.
Two brothers search for the Philosopher's Stone to restore their bodies; the top-rated anime.
Vi and Jinx in Piltover and Zaun; the League of Legends series that became the best animated show of its decade.
The Targaryen civil war two centuries before Game of Thrones.
Dakar boys lost at sea return to possess the girls they left; Mati Diop's ghost story.
A young man with magic flees his sorcerer father across 13th-century Mali; the Bambara epic.
A Romani boy with telekinesis sold to a gangster; Kusturica's magical realism.
A man raised in a village discovers he is the heir of a kingdom; Indian cinema at its most enormous.
A girl closes doors that release earthquakes across Japan, with a chair for company.
Stories inside stories in the Sierra Morena; the Polish cult film Scorsese and Coppola restored.
A Tokyo boy and a country girl swap bodies, and a comet approaches; the anime hit of 2016.
A runaway and a girl who can stop the rain in a Tokyo of endless downpours.
Dev Patel as Gawain riding to meet his beheading; Lowery's Arthurian mood piece.
Margot Robbie leaves Barbieland for the real world; Gerwig's billion-dollar comedy.
A hunter's daughter in Cromwell's Ireland becomes a wolf at night; Cartoon Saloon's hand-drawn peak.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the first half of the Broadway musical; "Defying Gravity".
Emma Stone as a woman with an infant's brain discovering the world; Lanthimos' Victorian fantasy.
Owen Wilson steps into 1920s Paris with Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds every midnight.
A Viking boy befriends the dragon he was meant to kill; the first flight is the moment.
Six-year-old Hushpuppy in a Louisiana bayou as the ice caps melt.
Denis Lavant plays nine lives in one day from a white limousine; Carax's surreal tour of cinema.
Bill Murray, a proton pack and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in New York.
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