There are many good films released around the world every year. Masterpiece celebrates the best of the very best: genuinely superb works of cinema that come with FictionMachine‘s very highest recommendation. If we had our own Criterion Collection, these are the films we would want it to include.

1. Shallow Grave (1994, UK, d. Danny Boyle. review)
2. The Fugitive (1993, USA, d. Andrew Davis. review)
3. Zodiac (2007, USA, d. David Fincher. review)
4. Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t (1992, Japan, d. Masayuki Suo. review)
5. Throw Down (2004, Hong Kong, d. Johnnie To. review)
6. Before Sunrise (1995, USA, d. Richard Linklater. review)
7. Schindler’s List (1993, USA, d. Steven Spielberg. review)
8. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, USA, d. Barry Levinson. review)
9. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, USA, d. Robert Zemeckis. review)