Items30The creator’s order
  1. 1Arrival (2016)Arrival (2016) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Nov 2016Amy Adams makes the work of listening feel urgent. A linguist facing alien visitors has to build trust before she can build a vocabulary, and that patient process gives the film's questions about time a human centre. Choose it for first-contact wonder tied to love and grief, rather than a battle to…0
  2. 2Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Mar 2004What would you lose if you could delete a failed relationship? Rooms collapse and familiar faces disappear as a memory-erasure procedure turns ordinary regrets into something you can see. Jim Carrey's withdrawn performance keeps the invention close to recognisable heartbreak. The attraction is its…0
  3. 3Her (2013)Her (2013) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 18 Dec 2013A lonely letter-writer falls for an operating system, but the interesting question is how either partner can keep growing inside that arrangement. Joaquin Phoenix's hesitant conversations and Scarlett Johansson's voice make the intimacy persuasive before the complications arrive. Its warm colours…0
  4. 4After Yang (2022)After Yang (2022) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 4 Mar 2022An android's breakdown interrupts a family's routines and exposes how little they have noticed about the person doing so much of their caring. Kogonada gives small remembered moments room to accumulate, turning questions of artificial identity towards attention, adoption and belonging. A quiet…0
  5. 5Moon (2009)Moon (2009) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Jun 2009The lonely worker on this lunar base wants to finish his contract and go home. Sam Rockwell makes that modest wish matter as the assignment becomes less straightforward, giving the film's identity questions an exhausted, bodily weight. The machinery is intriguing, but its strongest pull is the fear…0
  6. 6Contact (1997)Contact (1997) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Jul 1997Jodie Foster's astronomer brings the stubbornness of a scientist and the vulnerability of someone who has lost people to the same search. The alien signal sets institutions arguing, yet the film keeps returning to why an individual needs to know whether anyone is listening. Pick it for sincere…0
  7. 7Gattaca (1997)Gattaca (1997) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 9 Jul 1997A society that sorts people by genetic prospects makes ambition feel like trespassing. Ethan Hawke's determined applicant and Jude Law's bitter collaborator turn that premise into an uneasy relationship between two men carrying different disappointments. The elegant surfaces help the discrimination…0
  8. 8Children of Men (2006)Children of Men (2006) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 22 Sept 2006In an infertile future Britain, protecting one vulnerable woman becomes a test of whether anyone can still act with care. The crowded streets and sustained passages of danger keep the political collapse close to individual bodies. This is violent, distressing viewing, with hope appearing as…0
  9. 9Interstellar (2014)Interstellar (2014) 8.7/10 on IMDbReleased 4 Nov 2014The cost of a space mission becomes painfully legible when a parent watches messages from children who have aged in his absence. Christopher Nolan makes enormous distances matter through separation, resentment and the wish to return. Its emotional declarations are emphatic, and the running time is…0
  10. 10Never Let Me Go (2010)Never Let Me Go (2010) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 18 Mar 2010An English boarding-school story gradually reveals the bargain underpinning its apparently sheltered world. Carey Mulligan's restraint makes friendship, jealousy and postponed hopes feel painfully ordinary inside an extraordinary system. Choose it for the question of whose lives society allows to…0