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Stanley Kubrick managed to tickle the audience and also worry them a fair bit with his nuclear armageddon film.
Michael Mann's cops-and-robbers film was equal parts a crime film, a bombastic yet realistic actioner, and a hardcore drama that nailed every single element of each genre.
The second instalment of Edgar Wright's Three Cornettos Trilogy was a spin on and a tribute to action comedies, and acquitted himself admirably on both fronts.
Shimit Amin brought together high-stakes human drama and the natural high-stakes of international sport in this underdog story headlined by Shah Rukh Khan.
While the Hollywood musical has always gone hand-in-hand with romance, no one had done it quite as stylishly as Damien Chazelle with La La Land.
Sriram Raghavan's film about the escapades of a pretend-blind pianist and a lustful murderess was as thrilling as it was bleaky, and sometimes quite sunnily, funny.
Abhishek Chaubey's blood-and-guts take on the rebels of the Chambal ravines married philosophical drama with the best traditions of the classic American Western to produce a wholly original, searing film.
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