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3. Candyman (1992)
It's a testament to the original 1992 Candyman that its themes and ideas hold up incredibly well today, regardless of 2021's so-so sequel.
With its titular "villain" being the ghost of a Black man (Tony Todd) who was murdered for daring to have a relationship with a white woman, Candyman obviously has a lot on its mind about the place of Black men in America.
But it goes further than that, intelligently examining issues such as gentrification which are of course still stingingly relevant today.
And honestly, Candyman is an even more discomforting sit in 2024, considering how little real progress has actually been made in over three decades.
It's easy to rewatch the movie and remark how American society is still deeply mired in these problems, and struggles to simply let the Black community peacefully exist free of oppression and hostility.
Though the aforementioned sequel sought to expand upon these themes, the original film's message continues to resonate perfectly well on its own all these years later.