Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Crash (2005)Crash (2005) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 6 May 2005Best Picture, 2006 ceremony. The coincidences in this Los Angeles ensemble can begin to look like a timetable for moral reversals. Matt Dillon and Thandiwe Newton give individual encounters force, especially the rescue, but recognising the machinery leaves less room to wonder about the people…0
  2. 2Green Book (2018)Green Book (2018) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 16 Nov 2018Best Picture, 2019 ceremony. Mahershala Ali's composure and Viggo Mortensen's expansive comic timing explain the immediate appeal of this musician-and-driver road trip. The return visit is less rewarding when Don Shirley's guarded inner life keeps yielding to Tony's education. A meal, a letter and…0
  3. 3A Beautiful Mind (2001)A Beautiful Mind (2001) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 14 Dec 2001Best Picture, 2002 ceremony. Russell Crowe gives John Nash's awkwardness a particular rhythm, and Jennifer Connelly makes the marriage feel consequential. Knowing how the film reorganises its early scenes, however, can turn their thriller suspense into a long wait for information you already hold.…0
  4. 4The King's Speech (2010)The King's Speech (2010) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 26 Nov 2010Best Picture, 2011 ceremony. Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush make the sessions between a reluctant monarch and his speech therapist companionable, prickly and often funny. Those exchanges are the reason to return. For this viewer, the ceremonial build towards the broadcast increasingly outweighs…0
  5. 5The Artist (2011)The Artist (2011) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Oct 2011Best Picture, 2012 ceremony. A modern black-and-white film about silent Hollywood brought a welcome burst of visual playfulness, and Jean Dujardin's physical timing remains a pleasure. The sound jokes and physical comedy reward revisiting. My enthusiasm drops in the longer passages of George's…0
  6. 6Argo (2012)Argo (2012) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Oct 2012Best Picture, 2013 ceremony. The Hollywood planning is the part worth revisiting: Alan Arkin and John Goodman make a fake science-fiction production's everyday business funny. The airport escape has a thinner repeat appeal. Successive checks, delays and last-second interventions become conspicuous…0
  7. 7Slumdog Millionaire (2008)Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Nov 2008Best Picture, 2009 ceremony. Each quiz answer unlocks a formative incident, a device whose efficiency becomes more conspicuous on return. Violence and exploitation can start to look filed away for their eventual usefulness, and Latika gets limited space beyond Jamal's longing. The young cast,…0
  8. 8The English Patient (1996)The English Patient (1996) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 14 Nov 1996Best Picture, 1997 ceremony. John Seale's desert images retain their scale, and the church sequence with Hana and Kip makes discovery feel wonderfully intimate. These are strong reasons for another look. The obstacle is the central affair's repeated insistence on its own grandeur: the gradual…0
  9. 9American Beauty (1999)American Beauty (1999) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Sept 1999Best Picture, 2000 ceremony. Roses, pristine surfaces and the floating plastic bag insist that ordinary life deserves a closer look. On return, that visual argument can feel oddly closed: the images already tell us how to interpret them. Annette Bening's frantic management of appearances remains…0
  10. 10Forrest Gump (1994)Forrest Gump (1994) 8.8/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Jun 1994Best Picture, 1995 ceremony. The procession through recognisable historical events is my repeat-viewing obstacle. Once those encounters are familiar, their cleverness can interrupt relationships that deserve more time, especially Jenny's compressed, harder life. Tom Hanks's directness and Gary…0