★ 8.0mind-bending
Richard Kelly's 2001 cult favorite opens with a jet engine falling out of a clear sky into a teenager's empty bedroom, and spends 28 days building toward an answer nobody in the film can fully explain. It became a midnight-movie staple for a reason that has nothing to do with the rabbit costume.
★ 8.5major
David Fincher's 2014 adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel opens as a missing-wife procedural, with a husband sliding into the role of prime suspect under a media microscope. The film spends its first half building one version of events for the audience to trust -- and the second half revealing exactly how little of it was true.
★ 7.5major
David Fincher's 1997 follow-up to Se7en hands a cold, isolated banker a strange birthday present from his estranged brother -- and spends two hours escalating that present into something that looks, at every turn, like it's trying to kill him. What the gift actually turns out to be is the whole point of watching.