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The film that invented the modern Hollywood blockbuster, opening wide in cinemas and on screen as a shark devours seaside tourists before a mismatched trio hunt it down. The true star? John Williams’ iconic score.

Further proof that Daniel Day-Lewis could do anything. In Michael Mann’s bloody 18th century epic, the English actor plays a hardy frontiersman raised by Native Americans who risks everything for Madeleine Stowe’s British belle. Their chemistry is off the charts.

With a witty Tina Fey script, this high-school satire gave Lindsay Lohan her signature role as Cady Heron, a new student who tries to master high school – and Rachel McAdams’ terrifying top girl Regina George – via anthropological theories. Great, great fun.

Christopher Nolan introduced himself to audiences with this beguiling reverse thriller, where each scene is followed by the one that chronologically precedes it as Guy Pearce’s desperate amnesiac tries to control a world he has no memory of.

Dev Patel’s directorial debut is a heaving mix of crunching combat, Indian corruption commentary and spiritual longing. The actor plays a vengeance-bound survivor of a massacre relentlessly pursuing his corrupt foes.

A Coen brothers masterpiece, where violence is an otherworldly constant as the 1980s drug trade entangles a defiant hunter (Josh Brolin), a nightmarish assassin (Javier Bardem) and an ageing sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones).

Filmmaker Robert Eggers has delivered many takes on classic horror material with pungent detail, menacing period particulars and twisted carnality. His Dracula tale is no different, with Bill Skarsgård as the befouled vampire pursuing Lily-Rose Depp’s tormented wife.

Behind this animated family comedy about a group of forest animals confronted by a new suburban development is a quick-witted critique of reckless consumerism backed by chase sequences that are models of Buster Keaton-like planning.

The Salvadoran surrealist Julio Torres is one of comedy’s truly original voices. His directorial feature debut, in which he stars as an impoverished immigrant working for a blistering widow (Tilda Swinton), is both hilariously absurd and strikingly political.

A paean to American excess, exemplified by Al Pacino’s Cuban refugee turned Miami cocaine dealer, this garish classic directed by Brian De Palma is punctuated by unfettered violence and Michelle Pfeiffer as a mercenary mistress.

With two US Marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) arriving at an isolated hospital for the criminally insane, Martin Scorsese gets to riff on vintage horror movies and the history of psychiatry, with Michelle Williams featuring throughout as a haunting memory.

Memorably subverting fairytale cliches at every turn, this fantasy animated adventure about an ogre (Mike Myers) who just wants to chill in his swamp has aged exceptionally well. It remains sprightly, complete with Eddie Murphy voicing a motormouth donkey.

The historic flapping of the butterfly wings that gave us today’s Big Tech storm, David Fincher’s take on the creation of Facebook is an origin story for Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) that updates previous American studies of wealth and power.

The second – and best – of the Star Trek franchise’s 2010s reboot, featuring Chris Pine as Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock, explores the militarisation of space and the perils of buried history via Benedict Cumberbatch’s bravura antagonist.

In her first leading role after a lifetime of supporting work, then 94-year-old American actress June Squibb is an irascible delight as a motorised scooter avenger, pursuing scammers across Los Angeles in a comedy that is both farcical and bittersweet.

Sofia Coppola found her distinctive cinematic voice in this haunting story of five doomed teenage sisters in 1970s American suburbia. With Kirsten Dunst as the rebellious epicentre, this is female adolescence as a dreamy downward spiral.

Led by an eerily menacing Joaquin Phoenix as a hammer-wielding contractor retrieving trafficked children, this crime thriller from masterful Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay attains a hallucinatory power that eschews triumph for torment.

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