
2006
Apocalypto
A terrifying chase, a father's stubborn hope, and a waterfall jump you don't forget.
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2006
A terrifying chase, a father's stubborn hope, and a waterfall jump you don't forget.
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2006
A mercenary, a fisherman and a pink diamond — and a film that still asks who pays for our jewellery.
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2006
A rude, brilliant undercover tour of America — with Pamela Anderson as Borat’s North Star.
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2006
Racetrack flash and small‑town heart — and Lightning McQueen is the reason it still lands.
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2006
A single pregnancy, a tired man and a camera that refuses to blink.
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2006
One hitman, a lethal slow-acting poison and an insistence that adrenaline is a way of life.
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2006
A grieving cop, a blurred time-window and a surveillance system that refuses to stay in its lane.
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2006
A roller-coaster premonition, a stack of telling photos and one woman trying to out-think an inevitable plan.
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2006
Floods, feelings and a very persistent acorn.
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2006
A very average man wakes up to a very extreme future — and that's the joke, and the warning.
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2006
A polite robbery, a public spectacle and a detective who won't let the questions die.
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2006
A seven-year-old, a broken clutch and a family that refuses to stay private about its problems.
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2006
Ethan Hunt goes home — and the world refuses to leave him alone.
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2006
A clumsy night guard, a magic tablet and a museum full of trouble — Larry Daley keeps the wonders in line and the family at the centre.
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2006
Ofelia’s fairy tale shoved up against fascism — and it still stings.
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2006
Debt, bargains and one gloriously unreliable pirate.
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2006
An older fighter, an old grief, and the small, stubborn reasons we go back into the ring.
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2006
Grief, revenge and a very particular kind of pedagogy — Jigsaw’s classroom is still in session.
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2006
Win first, ask questions later — and then fall spectacularly off the podium.
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2006
Undercover, unravelling and utterly watchable — The Departed still courts danger with its double lives.
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2006
Miranda Priestly, ambition on a hanger — and a film that still asks what we trade to get what we want.
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2006
An American kid, a Japanese subculture and a mentor who quietly stole the film.
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2006
A back-road shortcut, a family under siege — and Doug Bukowski, who refuses to be helpless.
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2006
Obsession, misdirection and a man who will do anything to be remembered.
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2006
Mutant cure, Phoenix meltdown and one adamantium-clawed reason to keep watching.
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