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Open Your Eyes: Best magical-realist films

“What do we see when we look at the sky? How does regular life sparkle at the delicatessen, or over the Atlantics? This Showdown celebrates fantasy at human scale. List the ten best films set largely in reality, where everyday objects are brought to life, mundane tasks are made magical, past lives are recalled, and it makes perfect sense. A big fish, a baby lamb, we the animals—this is what movies were made for: the endless poetry of reality, transformed by a subtle shift.”

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    1

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    2

  • Spirited Away

    3

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    4

  • Being John Malkovich

    5

  • Amélie

    6

  • Black Swan

    7

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild

    8

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    9

  • Waking Life

    10

  • The Lobster

    11

  • Dancer in the Dark

    12

  • Toy Story

    13

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    14

  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    15

  • Atlantics

    16

  • Donnie Darko

    17

  • Pleasantville

    18

  • Life of Pi

    19

  • Edward Scissorhands

    20