Top 10 Movies: Psychological
The highest-graded psychological movies we have reviewed, best first.
You Can See EverythingNathan Fielder spends 34 days with Elizabeth Holmes and builds a hall of mirrors out of them, as funny as it is haunting.Read the review
The Hunt (2012)Mads Mikkelsen plays a decent man destroyed by one child's lie, and Vinterberg makes the village's certainty scarier than any villain.
American PsychoBale turns corporate emptiness into physical comedy so precise that a weak third act barely dents it.
Woman in the DunesAn existential parable told almost entirely through sand, sweat and skin, and all the more frightening for never feeling like one.
VertigoHitchcock's coldest and most beautiful picture, a study of a man rebuilding a dead woman out of a living one.
Wild StrawberriesBergman's road movie through an old man's memory is warmer and less schematic than The Seventh Seal, and Victor Sjöström's face carries every mile.
PrimetimeRobert Pattinson's uncanny Chris Hansen carries a queasy, gorgeous fever dream that looks harder at To Catch a Predator than it thinks about it.
Donnie DarkoThe dread and the imagery are real, but the time travel mythology is scaffolding pretending to be an explanation.
Requiem for a DreamAronofsky's addiction film is a formal assault that earns most of its cruelty, with Ellen Burstyn giving one of the great performances of its decade.
Autumn SonataTwo great actresses play one long night of accusation, and Ingrid Bergman, in her final film role, refuses to let the mother become the villain.
