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  Hana and Alice (2004): Friends dancing the ballet of deception

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  Edge of Tomorrow (2014): All You Need Is Killing Tom Cruise on Repeat

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  Dust Bunny (2025): Macabre whimsy with a touch of childhood fears

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  Air Doll (2009): The fragility of the human shell

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  Broker (2022): Finding a family on the road

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  Donnie Darko (2001): A 1980s suburban time-traveling adolescent

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  Call Me Chihiro (2023): Loneliness on the seashore

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  Dark City (1998): The stranger lost in a noir expressionist nightmare

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  The Classic (2003): Love and heartbreak in the rain

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  The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983): The time-travelling scent of lavender

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  Jurassic Park (1993): Spielberg’s theme park movie

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  Stoker (2013): Park Chan-wook’s Shadow of a Doubt

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  The Parades (2024): The bittersweet cinema of the afterlife

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  RoboCop (1987): Corporate-sponsored ultraviolent satire

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  Ratatouille (2007): Cooking up a Parisian dream of a meal

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  Linda Linda Linda (2005): The High-School Rock ‘n’ Roll Spirit

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  Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983): Tsui Hark’s Wuxia Fever Dream

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  Johnny Guitar (1954): Joan Crawford against the Red Scare Fever

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  Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989): The most bodacious time-travel movie

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  Swing Girls (2004): The Jazz Comedy Revival

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  Jeremiah Johnson (1972): The Solitary Myth of the High Mountain

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  Singin’ in the Rain (1952): Technicolor Joy and the Silent Death

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  Masquerade (2012): The Double-Edged Crown

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  Child’s Play 3 (1991): Chucky got his gun