The Lobster — IQ Score 161/200

Yorgos Lanthimos's 2015 dystopian film anchored by Colin Farrell as a recently-divorced man checking into a hotel where guests must find a romantic partner within 45 days or be transformed into an animal of their choosing. The structural commitment to letting the absurd premise be rendered with deadpan-procedural seriousness — and the resulting allegory about how social pressure shapes the cognition of romantic choice — established Lanthimos as a major international auteur.