By Simon Bland
Despite flopping on release, Disney's heartwarming story of a dad trying to bond with his son on a summer road trip has become a cult classic – especially for people with children of their own.
By Nadira Begum
A trailblazer on the global cinema stage as well as in his home of Mali, Souleymane Cissé's cinema of imagination changed the world.
By Fedor Tot
Born out of Belgrade's underground scene in 1995, Želimir Žilnik's celebration of a tight-knit community of sex workers has a particular power in today's increasingly divided society.
By Mick Gaw
Edward Yang's 2000 masterpiece about a middle-class family in Taipei might be the defining film of the millennium.
After a cruel break-up, a writer finds comfort and relief in Michel Gondry's offbeat 2004 romantic drama.
The shadow of the Holocaust and the filmmaker's personal experience with it looms large across Billy Wilder's most influential and enduring work.
By Cat Searcey
In his stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic caper, Wes Anderson highlights the necessity of overcoming a fear of change.
By Tyler Thier
This Halloween, no body horror fiction can compare to the haunting revelations of Brakhage's 32-minute film The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes.
By Riley Rogers
A decade after its release, David Fincher's thrilling adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel about a woman scorned retains its unnerving power.
As Prince's groundbreaking feature debut turns 40, its daring attitude towards gender and sexuality still feels revolutionary.
By Fran Bowden
Three decades on from its release, this 90s thriller echoes the disenfranchisement of young people and sensationalisation of shoplifting.
Twenty five years on from its release, the rave culture of Justin Kerrigan's ode to doomed youth is all but lost.
By Nadira Begum
25 years ago, Gil Junger's spiky teen romance reinvented The Taming of the Shrew – and made Shakespeare cool again.
By Kevin Bui
The voice actor brought his life experience to the role of the Caped Crusader, and in the process gave us a batman for the ages.
By Cian Tsang
By combining his signature absurdist style and sincerity with the beautiful game, Stephen Chow created an exhilarating and unconventional sports movie that captures the highs and laws of football.
By Xuanlin Tham
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Tsui Hark's take on a Chinese folktale is a breathtaking allegory for our inhospitable world.
Two decades after its release, Guy Maddin's eccentric Prohibition era satire speaks to a contemporary obsession with corporatising pain.
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