4. Strange Days
Alongside Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes is pretty much the best thing to have happened to the British film industry in quite some time - he was the best thing about the Harry Potter franchise, he stole Liam Neeson's thunder in Schindler's List, he out menaced Sir Anthony Hopkins in Red Dragon and he was astonishingly good in In Bruges. He doesn't make bad movies, and he doesn't offer similar performances, much like Oldman - showing this year in Skyfall that he has the capacity to be excellent even without a generous script and with the considerable competition of both a beloved M and England's finest spy. In Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, he might not quite have the American accent down, but he is still a picture of sleaziness and is, as ever, eminently watchable.