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6. A Most Wanted Man

One of the most criminally overlooked films of the last few years, Anton Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man is a masterful modern spy thriller, criticised upon release for being too slow and methodical without people realising that that's the exact goddamn beauty of it. Containing a great late-career turn from Philip Seymour Hoffman, A Most Wanted Man sees his Günther Bachmann investigate possible links to Chechen terrorists in modern-day Hamburg, the city a great grey concrete mosaic which mirrors the unwelcoming, dead-end nature of the plot. Gorgeous to look at (as are all of Corbijn's films), A Most Wanted Man has one of the great modern endings, an anti-climax which sees Hoffman's gruff bear of a character roar into the air in frustration. Hindered only slightly by a miscast Rachel McAdams, the film was one of the very best of 2014, and it fully deserves to be reconsidered as one of the best espionage capers of the last two decades.