10 Modern Movies That Will Be Viewed As Classics In Years To Come

5. Only God Forgives (2013)

The critical ire initially levelled at Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives would suggest the film was a resounding failure, bound for future obscurity. But there were those critics who responded to it with enormous praise - The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw and Little White Lies' David Jenkins gave the film top marks and called it Refn's best work to date. And, slowly but surely, fan favour has been turning around to see the film becoming a cult favourite. As the film is re-evaluated, and viewers take another look at the astoundingly gaudy cinematography and dream-like storytelling, and as they give another listen to Cliff Martinez' classical-meets-electropop score, Only God Forgives heads on its way to becoming a modern classic. It's appropriate that Only God Forgives is so Lynchian in nature, because its style reflects a number of David Lynch movies that were dismissed upon release but that now have a much higher standing - think Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (a favourite of Mark Kermode's), or Lost Highway. Sure, Ryan Gosling is wooden in his second collaboration with Refn, and it moves at a glacial pace, but that's exactly the point; the film is not meant to be taken as a representation of reality, but as one man's actual nightmare. Looking at the film in this way is the only way to see it - once you do, it becomes an entirely different picture. In short, it finally makes sense.