Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger has left audiences and critics completely split – so much so that it’s become part of the film’s marketing.
Still sitting on the fence for now, Close-Up Culture pick out 9 other films that provoked a similar reaction.
1. Digger
The film that currently has everyone asking: “Did we just watch the same movie?”
2. Mother!
A brilliant biblical allegory disguised as psychological horror – or two hours of miserable torture. You decide.
3. Beau Is Afraid
Ari Aster turns anxiety into a three-hour nightmare that some call genius and others found painfully confusing.
4. Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola spent decades dreaming this one up. Whether that was a good idea remains fiercely debatable.
5. Men
It starts as folk horror and ends somewhere considerably stranger – with that ending almost guaranteed to divide you.
6. The Neon Demon
Beautiful, nasty and almost aggressively stylish, Nicolas Winding Refn’s fashion nightmare is pure Marmite.
7. Under the Silver Lake
A conspiracy thriller, a coded puzzle or three hours of beautiful nonsense? The internet still hasn’t decided.
8. Spring Breakers
Is it a brilliant satire of American excess or just four girls behaving badly in bikinis? I think the former but everyone else tells me otherwise!
9. Climax
Gaspar Noé’s idea of a good time is 90 minutes of dancing, drugs and escalating psychological hell. Is it yours?
10. Saltburn
One of the most talked-about films of the decade – and one of the easiest to have a hot take on.
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