3. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen
It’s impossible to be bored while watching one of John Hughes’s most flawless diamonds, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, probably because the entire conceit and arc of the film is a trio of cool rich kids in Chicago who skip school in the name of metaphorically bashing boredom in the face with a hammer. We’re talking classic scene after classic scene, and the best-dressed kids from the 80s hands down.
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton
Essentially one long, never-ending and perfectly crafted action sequence, the post-apocalyptic perfection of Mad Max: Fury Road is carried by the pensive silence of Tom Hardy’s displaced Max Rockatansky and the stone-cold bad-assery of Charlize Theron’s bionic-armed Furiosa. It all happens against a meticulously crafted backdrop brutal, post-civilization wasteland and tribal warfare with (as always) precious, and increasingly scarce, natural resources at stake.