a bizarre kind of performance art where he grows “new and unexpected organs” and then lets people watch as he has them removed.

largely chaste, never too creepy

Still no love for Dark at the AV Club?

yes I am boggled why this place doesn’t cover it. Is it too complex for them?

This. Exactly. The confidence with which he builds the world without explaining or over-explaining everything. The weird things on stilts are glimpsed for a couple of seconds and not remarked on til later you realise that was the mythical Green Place that they were trying to get to. The fact that Furiosa has a…

I’ve heard so many terrible things about that film that i’m tempted to watch it just to see how bad it is. the book is great

surprised it didn’t make their top 10 in 2017. I think it’s both a great film on its own merits and as a sequel. I’m fairly sure people will still be talking about it in years to come.

that terrible Aaron Eckhart Frankenstein thing would have to be up there

Blade Runner 2049

Also, no Anomalisa?

Just to add to the list of omitted movies, on Twitter someone posted these ten films, none of which is on the list:

He has a really good take on Raiders.

I can still fondly recall seeing it in the cinema (while slightly toasted) and then avidly keeping tabs on it for weeks afterwards, and like you, I was bewildered why it didn’t do better box office. I don’t know what’s going on with the other (two? three?) films that Hardy supposedly signed on for

“It’s a legit great action film”

Absolutely. Enemy doesn’t have the emotional heft of Arrival, but it’s a profoundly moving film.

Was truly expecting it in the Top 5. I’m thrilled Fury Road is there (and happily surprised it’s at No 1, which gives me hope this site hasn’t lost all its marbles yet), but to omit Blade Runner: 2049 is just bizarre, especially when you consider that films such as Gone Girl, Whiplash, La La Land and Creed are there…

For comparison, here’s the Guardian’s pick of the best 100 films of the 21st century.

I don’t come on here much, but just wanted to ask: why is the AV Club not reviewing ‘Dark’ on Netflix?

yes it’s very much an homage to jolly old England with bucolic villages and kindly vicars and the like, and the Famous Five is certainly a reference because:

SPOILER!

a dog shows up (one that even looks a bit like the dog in the famous five stories) and the foursome becomes a fivesome

I appreciate that most of his characters, male and female, tend to be thinly drawn. Allowing for that, though, Carrie Ann Moss in Memento; Jessica Chastain in Interstellar; and Marion Cotillard in Inception