While there's plenty to love about a good, old-fashioned formulaic popcorn flick, some of the best movies are those mightily cerebral films that force viewers to focus up on topsy-turvy, mindbending storytelling devices and cinematic sleight-of-hand interwoven throughout surrealist narratives. They're the kind of films that challenge traditional tropes and use experimental formats to take a swing at viewers' worldviews or even their sense of reality. Elements like nonlinear storytelling, sonic disorientation, brain-warping visuals, and unreliable narrators come together beautifully to tell stories that are best understood through multiple viewings and offer layers upon layers of insight with each novel watch.

From complicated time travel tales and altered realities to existential terror a

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