Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Crash (2005)Crash (2005) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 6 May 2005Best Picture, 2006 ceremony. The Los Angeles ensemble's reversals can hit hard on a first pass, with Matt Dillon and Thandiwe Newton giving the encounters real force. Returning to them, the chain of coincidences makes people seem arranged to deliver lessons about prejudice on schedule. The rescue…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 closing dance 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 fake-film operation remains a delicious premise, especially when Alan Arkin and John Goodman handle Hollywood's everyday absurdity. The airport stretch is where my repeat interest slips: accumulating checks, delays and last-second interventions feel increasingly…0
  7. 7Slumdog Millionaire (2008)Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Nov 2008Best Picture, 2009 ceremony. Danny Boyle's speed, the young cast and A.R. Rahman's music make the quiz-show journey exhilarating. Rewatching puts more weight on the device linking each answer to a formative incident. Experiences of violence and exploitation start to look too efficiently filed for…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. Annette Bening's frantic management of appearances still gives the suburban satire an uncomfortable comic pulse. Elsewhere, a return can expose how emphatically roses, pristine surfaces and the floating plastic bag tell us to look beneath ordinary life. Lester's…0
  10. 10Forrest Gump (1994)Forrest Gump (1994) 8.8/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Jun 1994Best Picture, 1995 ceremony. Tom Hanks's directness and Gary Sinise's irritable physical presence give the historical pageant genuine feeling. My repeat-viewing snag is the procession of recognisable people and events: once the encounters are familiar, their cleverness can interrupt relationships…0