01 A young boy watches his parents' marriage quietly collapse in 1960s Montana.
Paul Dano – 10 Best Movies
By Vlad Zakh · August 24, 2026
Paul Dano has built one of the more interesting character-actor careers of his generation without ever chasing a conventional leading-man role, oil-boom rivals, silent brothers, and eventually a genuinely unnerving Riddler.
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02 A stranded man befriends a multipurpose corpse that washes up on his island.
03 A girl fights a biotech corporation to save her genetically engineered best friend.
04 Brian Wilson's creative peak and later breakdown, told across two separate timelines.
05 A grim, detective-driven Batman story that treats Gotham like an actual crime scene, with Dano as a genuinely disturbing Riddler.
06 A fresh, non-linear retelling of the March sisters' story.
07 Essential, difficult, and unflinching in a way few films attempt.
08 A dysfunctional family road-trips a young girl to a beauty pageant she barely wants to attend.
09 A father takes the law into his own hands after his daughter goes missing.
10 Daniel Day-Lewis turning oil-boom ambition into pure menace, with Dano as his fanatical rival.
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