Zodiac
Fincher's most mature film: a meditation on obsession that denies catharsis and earns it.
Prisoners
A relentless crime thriller that takes morality seriously: what a father does when the rules stop working.
Gone Girl
A clinical, darkly funny thriller about marriage, media, and performance: Fincher at his most controlled.
No Country for Old Men
A film that refuses to give you what you came for, which turns out to be exactly what it needed to give you.
The Departed
Scorsese at full throttle: a crime epic about loyalty, identity, and who people really are when no one knows.
Parasite
A genre-defying masterpiece about class and architecture that earned every award it received.