David Cronenberg’s mindbender is the best movie ever made about video games.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s post-apocalyptic meditation on faith is one of cinema’s most mysterious, transfixing films.

A film about the resilience of children and the power of cinema.

Fritz Lang’s 1931 masterpiece remains an urgent critique of groupthink and mob mentalities.

Bertrand Bonello sets a frighteningly beautiful minefield for his audience to navigate.

Pedro Almodóvar’s celebration of women is as layered as its characters.

Jia Zhangke’s terrific debut film marked the arrival of a distinct artist working on the margins of Chinese cinema.

Kurosawa’s late-career epic believes in the potential for imitation to have real meaning.

This is Stanley Kubrick’s most psychologically complex and debated work.