Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect in postwar Pennsylvania, in VistaVision with an intermission.
Godzilla attacks a defeated Japan in 1947; the $15 million film that beat Hollywood's effects.
Anthony Hopkins with dementia, in a flat that keeps changing; his second Oscar at 83.
Emma Stone as a woman with an infant's brain discovering the world; Lanthimos' Victorian fantasy.
Two cousins on a Holocaust tour of Poland; Kieran Culkin's Oscar.
Carey Mulligan pretends to be drunk to catch predators; Emerald Fennell's candy-coloured revenge.
Ralph Fiennes runs the election of a pope; a thriller set entirely inside the Vatican.
Two soldiers cross no man's land to stop an attack, in what looks like one continuous shot.
Sandra Bullock alone in orbit after the debris hits; Cuaron's 13-minute opening shot.
DiCaprio mauled by a bear and crawling through winter for revenge; his Oscar at last.
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.
Jewish prisoners forced to forge pounds and dollars for the Reich in Sachsenhausen.
A Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz tries to bury one boy; shot in shallow focus over his shoulder.
A Danish doctor commutes between a refugee camp and a schoolyard where his son is bullied.
A womanising Prague cellist is stuck with a five-year-old Russian boy in 1989.
A boy genius and an inflatable healthcare robot in San Fransokyo.
An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.
A Johannesburg gang leader steals a car with a baby in the back seat.
A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.
A Bosnian and a Serb trapped in a trench with a third man lying on a mine.
A dying Montreal professor is gathered up by his son, his friends and his ex-lovers.
A German-Jewish family flees to a Kenyan farm in 1938 and the daughter grows up African.
A cellist takes a job preparing the dead for burial in rural Japan.
A jazz teacher dies before his big gig and argues his way back from the Great Before.
A mother loses her son and goes to Barcelona to find his father; Almodovar's women.
A Stasi officer listens to a playwright's flat and slowly changes sides.
A bailiff in 1920s Rotterdam sets out to break the illegitimate son he refuses to acknowledge.
Woody, a fork named Forky, and a goodbye the series had been building to.
A trans singer in Santiago is shut out of her partner's death by his family.
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