2.Gone Girl (2014): The sheer depth of Gone Girl is astonishing. On the surface, it's an exceptional psychological mystery thriller full of compelling characters with questionable moral compasses and possible motives to do horrible shit-which makes it very hard to predict what's going to happen next. While writer Gillian Flynn and director David Fincher are setting up their twisty missing persons/potential murder narrative, it also manages to organically provide commentary on things like how unforeseen financial hardships can cause a marriage to decompose, the negative mental impact of achieving fame at a young age and the media's disturbing tendency to run with controversial stories that haven't been properly vetted for accuracy just for the sake of generating ratings. This combination of intelligence and unpredictability makes it the perfect thriller for the modern era and I will champion the hell out of it at every possible opportunity.
1.Django Unchained (2012): This shouldn't be much of a surprise to anybody. Quentin Tarantino is my favorite filmmaker on the planet and I believe that Django Unchained is his finest piece of work since Pulp Fiction. Being able to craft a rollicking, hilarious revenge western without sugarcoating the atrocities of slavery is one of the most impressive things Tarantino has accomplished over the course of his illustrious career.
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