Films
A child tells one lie about something she did not understand, and three lives bend around it forever.
An obnoxious American drags a group through the Chilean desert in search of a hallucinogen and his own undoing.
Three men walk into a forbidden zone where a room is said to grant wishes.
Two strangers get off a train in Vienna and decide to spend one night talking before dawn separates them.
A crew flies a bomb into a dying sun to reignite it, and finds the sun has a will of its own.
A wordless stop-motion retelling of Prokofiev, darker and tenderer than the children's tale you remember.
Two men in a snowbound cabin trade three stories, and the cabin itself is the last twist.
A theater director builds a life-size replica of his city inside a warehouse, and never finishes, and never stops.
Two women meet in an 1980s beach town that turns out to be a place you can stay after you die.
A woman's visions of brutal murders turn out to be memories she was never supposed to keep.
The last seven days of a girl everyone in town agreed not to see.
Books
A disgraced journalist and a damaged hacker dig into a girl who vanished from a locked island forty years ago.
Two families in a California valley keep replaying the story of Cain and Abel across generations.
A comfortable hobbit is dragged off on a dragon-hunt and comes home changed.
A scholar who has learned everything and felt nothing bets his soul on the devil giving him one moment worth keeping.
Four women cross into a quarantined zone that does not obey the rules of biology.
Published to no notice, rediscovered fifty years later by the people who needed it.
A low-caste miner on Mars cuts himself open and remakes his body to pass as the ruling class.
Three brothers, a murdered father, and the question of whether God permits any of it.
A hobbit carries a cursed ring across a fully invented world to destroy it.
A journalist interviews scholars to test the historical claims of Christianity.
Music
Reggae from Puerto Rico, an entire album about being in love, played with no hurry at all.
Nineteen years after their debut, the Strokes make their best album in a decade and win a Grammy.
Marvin Gaye defied Motown to make nine connected songs about war, poverty, and a country coming apart.
Daft Punk put down the laptops and hired live session players to make a record about the music they missed.
George Michael wrote and produced this at twenty-one, and three of its eight songs topped the American chart.
Zoé's singer alone: twelve short pop songs about love, lighter than anything his band makes.
Caifanes with King Crimson's guitarist producing: the strangest and strongest Mexican rock album of its decade.
Four Australians play disco the way a jazz band would, long takes and all.
The big-beat duo's fourth album, home to Star Guitar and a Michel Gondry video about a train.
Two twenty-year-olds from Queensbridge made the coldest New York rap record of the nineties.
After the Beatles split, George Harrison released a triple album of everything they had turned down.
Anime
Two sisters move to the country and meet the big quiet spirit living in the woods.
A nameless medicine seller hunts spirits he can only kill once he knows their grief.
In a domed city where everything is managed, a question no one was meant to ask gets loose.
A man walks the old roads of Japan, tending to encounters between people and creatures called mushi.
A lone swordsman joins a band of mercenaries led by a man with a terrible ambition.
A boy hunts for his missing father and finds a world that keeps raising the stakes.
A cyborg cop hunts a hacker and starts to wonder whether anything human is left in her.
Two girls bond over drawing manga, and the film follows what that bond costs and gives across the years.
Humanity lives behind giant walls because man-eating giants roam outside, until one wall falls.
A shut-in convinces himself a conspiracy is keeping him trapped in his apartment.
Manga
The story of the man whose family job, for generations, was to execute people for the French crown.
A red-haired delinquent joins the basketball team to impress a girl and accidentally falls in love with the game.
A small town gets infected by the shape of a spiral, and nobody can leave.
Two young terrorists bomb their way across Japan while a giant beast walks south through the country.
A disgraced executioner pushes his infant son in a cart down a road of contract killings.
Two escaped slaves, one Japanese and one Black American, fight their way through Edo-era Japan.
A bright student finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name he writes, and decides to remake the world.
The sequel to Kiichi follows a strange, fearless boy with a marked face into a wider, harder world.
The robot boy who started modern manga, and who keeps asking why humans built him only to fear him.
A swordsman cursed with immortality helps a girl hunt the men who killed her family.
Video Games
A delivery driver looks for a secret highway and finds the people debt left behind.
A city floats in the clouds on faith and white supremacy, and you are sent in to retrieve a girl.
A spin on Undertale where you lead a party, the world is darker, and the choices feel out of your hands.
You explore a tiny solar system that explodes every 22 minutes, and only knowledge carries over.
A spoiled tourist gets kidnapped on a tropical island and slowly turns into a killer who likes it.
A smuggler escorts a teenage girl across a ruined America and stops being able to let her go.
You solve physics puzzles with a gun that shoots two doorways, while a sarcastic computer mocks you.
A falling moon, three days on a loop, and a whole town that does not know it is doomed.
A grim fantasy that kills you constantly and makes the world fit together like a lock.
A child falls underground into a world of monsters, and you can choose to kill none of them.
A detective wakes up with no memory in a small hostel, in a city slowly being eaten by its own century.
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.