There are movies that give you what you expect from a movie, and then there are movies that move the needle, change the conversation, reinvent the whole idea of what a movie is or could be. The former are much more common than the latter, but to me the latter are much more exciting.<\/p>\n
Some notable examples that come to mind are Psycho<\/i>, Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/i>, Poor Things<\/i>, Synectoche NY<\/i>, Stranger than Fiction<\/i>, Twelve Monkeys<\/i>, Brazil<\/i>.<\/p>\n
This is far from an exhaustive list, and I would be curious to hear other peoples’ favorite examples. Don’t get me wrong — I love a good RomCom or thriller as well as the next person — but there is something transcendent about going to the movie theater and being completely surprised by something that is nothing like anything you’ve ever seen before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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