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Oddity (2024)

When atmosphere is the horror.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Bogart show!

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Babylon (2022)

A vapid love letter to Hollywood filmmaking.

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Raise The Red Lantern (1991)

A game of patriarchy and foot massages.

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Late Night with the Devil (2023)

Wait, you mean Late Night TV wasn’t always the devil?

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

There’s more under the hood of the Mad Max universe.

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Kinds of Kindness (2024)

The absurdity of loyalty.

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The Dreamers (2003)

Sexual exploration for the dreamers and romantics.

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Three Colors: Blue (1993)

Not as blue as you think.

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Army of Shadows (1969)

Espionage thriller at the peak of the French wave.

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The Theory of Everything (2014)

Everything Stephen Hawking, except the theory.

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Poetry (2010)

A sacred slow burn.

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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

In the courts of 2023, men fall so women can rise.

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Collateral (2004)

When a psychopathic hitman is just like any other person.

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The Big Lebowski (1998)

A stoner movie for intellectuals?

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The Green Mile (1999)

Can a prison movie have too much heart?

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L.A. Confidential (1997)

Everything we love about noir crime classics.

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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The only time you’ll want to go to prison.

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Schindler’s List (1993)

The most poignant portrayal of the Holocaust.

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Peppermint Candy (1999)

A suicide you might not bother to save.

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Mulholland Drive (2001)

Watch Perfect Blue instead.

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Psycho (1960)

The father of horror/thrillers.

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Seven Samurai (1954)

The blade doesn’t cut deep for this Japanese epic.

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Casablanca (1942)

The pinnacle of classic cinema.

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Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011)

When Chess is global war.

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AlphaGo (2017)

The only AI documentary that might leave a glimmer of hope.

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Ocean’s Eleven (2001)

An iconic cast leads this future heist classic.

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Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Zombies and shopping malls, what more do you need?

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28 Days Later (2002)

The core essence of a zombie film.

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The Thin Red Line (1998)

Can war be poetic?

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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

When a war movie is so brutal it feels like a reenactment.

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

The real war is the fragility of the mind.

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12 Angry Men (1957)

A historically relevant film on human bias.

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Léon: The Professional (1994)

The unlikeliest pair is the most iconic.

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Rear Window (1954)

A glimpse of what visual storytelling is all about.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Crazy is never out of fashion.

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Goodfellas (1990)

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

An ambitious potential masterpiece falls short.

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The Godfather Part II (1974)

Perhaps the greatest gangster epic of all time.

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Green Room (2015)

If Fincher made a slasher.

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I Saw the Devil (2010)

Korean revenge in a nutshell.

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Blue Velvet (1986)

Some masterpieces don’t age well.

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Apocalypse Now (1979)

The greatest war film ever made.

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Vertigo (1958)

Hitchcock’s masterpiece disorients audiences for the worse.

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Citizen Kane (1941)

A revolution in filmmaking no longer revolutionary.

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Challengers (2024)

Challenging what a film should look like.

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Civil War (2024)

No civil war, just a massacre.

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Lady Bird (2017)

A fresh coming of age story disarming the biggest skeptics.

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The Usual Suspects (1995)

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled.

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Reservoir Dogs (1992)

When you think you sound cooler than you really are.

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