Films
Aliens stranded over Johannesburg are herded into a slum, and a bureaucrat evicting them starts to become one.
Two lonely people live across the same Buenos Aires street and keep almost meeting.
An ordinary man's late date in SoHo becomes a single escalating nightmare he cannot wake from.
A film with no plot, about memory, guilt, and the texture of a life.
A small-time scheme in the Minnesota snow unravels into murder, watched by the most decent cop in cinema.
A boxer's jealousy and rage make him unbeatable in the ring and impossible to live with outside it.
A luxury cruise capsizes the social order, and the people who served learn they can be served.
A man who lost his whole family on 9/11 has built a life with the volume turned all the way down.
A bright newcomer in Los Angeles helps an amnesiac woman, until the movie turns on itself.
A team of scientists walks into a zone where biology has stopped obeying the rules.
An ordinary high-school morning, filmed in long unbroken glides, walking toward a horror everyone knows is coming.
A boy nobody is paying attention to runs, finally, toward the sea.
Books
A scalp-hunting gang rides the 1850s borderlands while a vast, smiling man watches.
A father and son push a cart south through a dead, ash-covered world.
A fifteen-year-old boy runs away from home. An old man who can speak to cats walks toward him.
A journalist interviews scholars to test the historical claims of Christianity.
Five loosely linked books circling a string of unsolved murders in a town on the Mexican border.
An innocent man is framed, escapes after fourteen years, and returns rich to ruin the men who buried him.
Bulgakov wrote this in secret, knowing he would never see it published. He burned the first draft.
The novel Werckmeister Harmonies was adapted from. The sentences are paragraphs. The paragraphs are chapters.
A poor student murders a pawnbroker to test a theory, then has to live inside his own head.
A young man stays beautiful while his portrait absorbs every sin he commits.
Music
The Bristol trip-hop group went dark and built the most paranoid album of the nineties.
The Doors recorded their nightclub act in about a week and delivered the strongest debut of 1967.
A Danish producer stretches one track across fourteen minutes and makes it feel short.
Q-Tip and Phife Dawg rapping over drums and jazz bass, the most relaxed rap record of 1991.
Radiohead threw out their guitars and made something colder and stranger. It went to number one anyway.
The cartoon bands second album is darker, tighter, and built around a single bass riff everybody knows.
A Japanese Brazilian voice turns 1940s American swing into bossa nova. Platinum in Japan.
Two DJs from Washington DC compress a whole night in Toronto onto two discs.
Radiohead's warmest album. They put it online and let people pay whatever they wanted.
A 1994 record that sounds like the inside of a building abandoned for exactly the right amount of time.
Anime
A college student lives the same two years over and over, choosing differently each time.
A cyborg cop hunts a hacker and starts to wonder whether anything human is left in her.
A nameless medicine seller hunts spirits he can only kill once he knows their grief.
A jazz record disguised as a show about bounty hunters who have already lost.
A girl is pulled into a world where fate is a machine you can read.
A goldfish princess wants to become a girl, and the sea floods a town to let her.
A shut-in convinces himself a conspiracy is keeping him trapped in his apartment.
A sulky girl loses her name and works in a bathhouse for spirits to get it back.
A doctor saves a boy's life and spends the next seventy hours learning what he set loose.
A system reads everyone's minds and decides who is a criminal before they act.
Beings with small wings and halos live in a walled town, unsure of where they came from.
Manga
A young swordsman tears through enemies, then spends decades learning that winning was never the point.
A potter is brainwashed into the perfect assassin and weeps every time he kills.
People who die are dumped into a room with a black sphere and forced to hunt aliens.
A mercenary with a sword the size of a door walks the long road of a man who lost everything.
Two young men share an apartment and a habit of falling into the kind of trouble that gets people killed.
A reckless gambler bets his life in games refereed by a secret organization built to enforce the wagers.
A drifting street kid learns to box in a slum and gives everything he has to the ring.
A boy drawn as a small bird becomes a man drawn as a smaller bird.
In a Japan at endless low-grade war, the state lets victims hire legal killers to take revenge.
A boy realizes that his devoted mother is dangerous, and his whole life narrows into fear of her.
Video Games
A Bavarian abbey at the moment the medieval world began to give way to the modern.
A run-and-gun boss rush drawn frame by frame to look like a 1930s cartoon.
A man gets a letter from his dead wife asking him to meet her in a town abandoned for years.
A Slovakian indie made by one person. Looks like a forgotten 90s RPG, reads like Eastern European literature.
A small knight descends into a buried kingdom of insects, looking for something the locals have forgotten.
The old god of rage carries his dead wife's ashes up a mountain with the son he barely knows.
A time-travel adventure where a kid and his friends jump across eras to stop the world from ending.
A cute cartoon squirrel stars in a foul-mouthed platformer about hangovers, money, and a singing pile of dung.
You and a giant feathered animal try to escape a ruin. The animal does not always listen.
Androids fight machines on an abandoned Earth in a game you have to finish several times to understand.
The Grand Inquisitor requests an audience.
God has shown Himself in so much of what humanity has made; it is my duty to share the best of it.