01 A woman confronting an actress studying her own real-life scandal.
United States Drama thought provoking
Still Alice is devastating and controlled; Boogie Nights and Magnolia, from the same few years, are looser and stranger. May December proves she’s still taking real risks with difficult material decades in. In The Big Lebowski (1998): An eccentric avant-garde artist tangled up in the Dude’s chaotic misadventure. Just as strong is Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014): A drug-lord villain with an unsettling lisp and a taste for spectacle.
01 A woman confronting an actress studying her own real-life scandal.
02 A passenger caught up in a mid-air hijacking mystery alongside Liam Neeson.
03 An eccentric avant-garde artist tangled up in the Dude's chaotic misadventure.
04 A drug-lord villain with an unsettling lisp and a taste for spectacle.
05 One half of a married couple whose family is upended by a stranger.
06 A quietly suffocating 1950s housewife across three interwoven timelines.
07 An Oscar-nominated performance as a 1950s housewife confronting her husband's secret and her own feelings.
08 A guilt-ridden trophy wife unraveling across Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling ensemble.
09 An Oscar-nominated turn as a maternal figure inside the 1970s adult-film industry.
10 An Oscar-winning performance as a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's.