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What is the best Jonathan Glazer movie?

By YPB Team

Only four features in a quarter century, and none sounds like the others: a sunburnt crime caper, a hushed Manhattan mystery, eerie Scottish sci-fi and a Holocaust drama told from the other side of the wall.

  1. The Zone of Interest — ranked #11
    The Zone of Interest
    A 2023 drama loosely based on Martin Amis's novel, following Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family in their home beside the camp, which won the Cannes Grand Prix and the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
    1000pts
  2. Under the Skin — ranked #22
    Under the Skin
    A 2013 science-fiction film loosely adapted from Michel Faber's novel, starring Scarlett Johansson as an alien who lures men while driving around Scotland.
    666pts
  3. Sexy Beast — ranked #33
    Sexy Beast
    Glazer's 2000 debut feature, a crime film in which Ray Winstone's retired safecracker is pressured by Ben Kingsley's Don Logan, a role that earned Kingsley an Oscar nomination.
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  4. Birth — ranked #44
    Birth
    A 2004 drama starring Nicole Kidman as a New York widow whom a ten-year-old boy tells he is her dead husband reborn.
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