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

Karen Bernstein

The Walking Dead explores human nature

If Beale Street Could Talk | A story of ecstatic love

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | The witches of modern times

Roberto Aguirre Sacasa

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

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

Euphoria | A visceral portrayal of the teenage experience

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

Russell T Davies

When They See Us | The long way towards equality

Bombay Rose has a unique visual animation style

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

Christopher Nolan

Gaslight | When the personal becomes political

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

Dark is an exception among TV shows

I Am Not Your Negro | Witnessing American History

Dark humor meets heavy drama in Orange Is the New Black

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

Jonathan Entwistle

In the Mood for Love | Loneliness and expectation

Breaking Bad | The downward spiral of an ordinary man

Game of Thrones | When the TV goes big

Mad Men | The pursuit of happiness in American society

Bridgerton | A revolutionary period drama

I Know This Much is True | A centrifuge of sadness

Derek Cianfrance

Normal People | Diverting the viewer’s expectations

Dear White People | An exploration of racial identity

The Law of Desire | Entertainment mixes with auteur cinema

Pedro Almodóvar

Unbelievable | A story of injustice

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

D.A. Pennebaker

Westworld | Free will is not free

The Office | Pure comedy in the workplace

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

In the Mouth of Madness | A Storyteller’s Testament

Killing Eve | Spies and Assassins play their game

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The Candidate | American politics before the Watergate

Michael Ritchie

Selfie | Meaning (and connection) cravings

Tristan Aurouet

Whiplash | Deromanticizing music and success

Damien Chazelle

BoJack Horseman | A human journey

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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

The Queen’s Gambit | A western on the chessboard

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

Vesela Kazakova

13th |A lineage of racial oppression across 150 years

Watchmen | A subversion of the superhero

Manchester by the Sea | An emotional study on grief

Kenneth Lonergan

Alien | In space no one can hear you scream

Dark City Beneath the Beat is Baltimore’s audiovisual symphony

The Morning Show | A story about power

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

Céline Sciamma

What feed journalists in The Newsroom

The Lighthouse portrays the struggle of humanity

Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

Mistery and domestic struggles in Desperate Housewives

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

George C. Wolfe

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Big Little Lies | What lies beneath the surface

Amour | An experience

The Undoing is not only a murder story

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Unorthodox | Finding one own’s voice

Lost | The first mainstream phenomenon on TV

The Trial of the Chicago 7 | A movie about today

Queen Sugar is a portrayal of oppression

Fleabag challenges the viewer in many ways

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Gunpowder Heart | Revenge drama in Guatemala City

Throne of Blood | Translating Shakespeare into Film

Elite | A teen drama dealing with complex themes

Seinfeld | The Sitcom Grandma

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

Midsommar | Ari Aster’s horror fairy tale

Betty Blue | A commentary on women depiction in the media

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Wag the Dog | When comedy looks like reality

Parasite | Defying definition and labels

House of Cards offers a dark portrait of America

Chernobyl | What history can teach

Minimalism and poetry in Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a love story

Ana Lily Amirpour

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

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