Movies Everyone Says Are Perfect
You know those movies that always end up on “best of all time” lists? The ones people mention with a serious face like they’re reciting scripture? Yeah. Annoyingly, they deserve it. These are the films that somehow live up to the hype. If you haven’t seen them, you’re missing out on being able to nod wisely when someone references them at dinner.
The Picks
A man goes to prison for a crime he may or may not have commited and responds with patience, friendship, and the most satisfying long game ever filmed.
Official synopsis
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Crime anthology presented out of order because Tarantino. Contains a dance scene, a mystery briefcase, and a suspicious amount of philosophical hamburger talk.
Official synopsis
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
A film so heavy it changes the air in the room. Not ‘fun’, not ‘easy’, but essential if you want your humanity to stay calibrated.
Official synopsis
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.