Hal Ashby’s film of grand and life-affirming ideas.

Reichardt’s willingness to question the certainty of masculine Westerns supplies an investigation of reality, our incomplete view of it, and the limits of true knowledge.

Albert Brooks’ funniest, most cynical, yet most insightful film.

Stanley Kubrick’s metaphysical and narrative maze.

Capra’s wrestles with his unwavering love of the American ideal and his understanding that people could too easily be led to corrupt it

It uses a mixture of realism and folklore, lust and horror, to disentangle nuclear-era contexts in a postmodern approach.

Akerman’s masterpiece is a subversive and visionary feminist statement.

Spike Lee’s essential work of cultural introspection is just as vital today as in 1989. 

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s kinetic zombie reinvention explores how the institutions and social order designed to protect humanity often betray us.