Which is why the task has fallen to this journalist to compile their ultimate list - based on nothing more than watching a lot of movies and thinking very hard about it.

Ancient scripts like Linear A and Rongorongo are among the mysterious undeciphered languages that continue to puzzle linguists today.

After a year that has whiplashed between genius and landfill, here are the 25 films from across the world that justified the obsession and proved cinema still has bite, pulse, humour, fury, and the ...