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Hollywood | Rewriting the Golden Age of cinema

The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

Arrival | A close encounter of the fifth kind

Denis Villeneuve

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Rick and Morty | The absurd balance between tragedy and miracle of life

The Rules of the Game | A war movie without a war

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

Captain Fantastic | Can a family thrive away from society?

Portrait of a Lady on Fire | A manifesto about the female gaze

Céline Sciamma

Primary | An intimate portrait of J.F.K.

Amour | An experience

VEEP | A female vice-president? Not fiction anymore

Armando Iannucci

Killing Eve | Spies and Assassins play their game

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

The War Room | A testimony of Direct Cinema’s last days

D.A. Pennebaker

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me | A search for acceptance

Karen Bernstein

The Undoing is not only a murder story

Jean Hanff Korelitz

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Ida | A journey to discover one’s own identity

Paweł Pawlikowski

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

BoJack Horseman | A human journey

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

The Dark Knight | An allegory of 9/11 and The War on Terror

Christopher Nolan

Years and Years | A timely representation of today’s reality

Russell T Davies

Another Round | Awakening to Life

Thomas Vinterberg

The Leftovers | A symphony of grief

Mank | The Impression of a Man’s Life

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

A History of Violence | The shadows cast by the past of a shining knight

David Cronenberg

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

Sound of Metal | A quest for stillness

The Man Standing Next | Shakespearean Tragedy in 70s Korea

Cat In The Wall | A critical look at the loss of tolerance

Vesela Kazakova

Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity

Bridgerton | A revolutionary period drama

The Thing | To Gaze Long into an Abyss

The Morning Show | A story about power

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

What feed journalists in The Newsroom

Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Elite | A teen drama dealing with complex themes

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Sharp Objects | A deep and dark humanity

A new renaissance in Atlanta

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

The Handmaid’s Tale | It’s all much more than fiction

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | A Case of the Blues

George C. Wolfe

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness

Derek Cianfrance

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

The Shock of the Future | It’s the music that matters

Stand by Me | A cult journey into adulthood

Brooklyn Nine-Nine | The good cops do exist

Pose | Ball culture and trans representation

Euphoria | A visceral portrayal of the teenage experience

The End of the F***ing World | A psychopathic love story

Jonathan Entwistle

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times

Roberto Aguirre Sacasa

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

Grey’s Anatomy | A pillar in the modern TV era

Seinfeld | The Sitcom Grandma

The Walking Dead explores human nature

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

Game of Thrones | When TV goes big

Dark is an exception among TV shows

Selma | Drawing out the essence of Martin Luther King Jr.

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

The Wilds | A matriarchal utopia inspired by teenage girls

Sarah Streicher

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

The Good Place could be a better place

Westworld | Free will is not free

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Chernobyl | What history can teach

Romulus | A coming-of-age story in the ancient Lazio

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Nomadland | See You Down the Road

When They See Us | The long way towards equality

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

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