22 years before Frances McDormand won an Oscar for drilling a hole in her dentist’s thumb in Three Billboards, she was just winning—killing it as pregnant Brainerd, Minnesota police chief, Marge Gunderson, in Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 modern classic, Fargo.
11.5 out of 12 Tamales
9. Phantom Thread: 6 out of 12 Tamales
8. Call Me by Your Name: 7 out of 12 Tamales
7. The Post: 9 out of 12 Tamales
6. Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri: 9 out of 12 Tamales
5. Dunkirk: 9.5 out of 12 Tamales
4. The Shape of Water: 9.5 out of 12 Tamales
3. Darkest Hour: 10.5 out of 12 Tamales
2. Lady Bird: 11 out of 12 Tamales
1. Get Out: 11 out of 12 Tamales
Robin William’s straight-from-the-heart delivery, Matt Damon’s outstanding breakout performance, and an amazing Oscar winning script collaboratively make Good Will Hunting 1997’s best film.
11.5 out of 12 Tamales
Stupid, laugh out loud fun, clever, leave-you-guessing twists—and the copybook, comedic pairing of Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams—overcome the film’s sillier moments to win Game Night.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
A Daliesque end-of-the-world nightmare, Annihilation systematically builds tension behind Natalie Portman’s thrilling performance and Alex Garland’s artful direction.
9.5 out of 12 Tamales
By breaking the rules of a stalling genre—and by setting its own—Scream subverted and reestablished what a horror movie should be, bold and unpredictable.
11 out of 12 Tamales
The sleek, shiny wrapping falls off eventually, but when it’s on, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther is one cool black cat of a Marvel entry.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
Somehow Titanic’s incongruent pieces, a love story aboard a doomed ship, a director known exclusively for action movies, and a seemingly mismatched pair of relatively untested leads, fit perfectly together in this unsinkable historical epic.
11 out of 12 Tamales
The never-acted-in-a-movie (and it shows) real life heroes out perform the professionals, a random collection of sitcom stars, in The 15:17 to Paris, a film so poorly edited it leaves you wondering if you’re watching a movie directed by The Room’s Tommy Wiseau instead of the venerable Clint Eastwood .
2 out of 12 Tamales
Before Stranger Things, the original quad-squad of adolescent misfits were found in Richard Donner’s The Goonies, a trailblazing adventure that’s inspired the genre to this day.
11 out of 12 Tamales
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