In this episode of Reel 21, Nathan Chandler revisits Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity — a heart-pounding survival story that’s as technically dazzling as it is emotionally grounded.

Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man (2005) takes Timothy Treadwell’s tragic story and turns it into a haunting meditation on passion, madness and mortality.

Before Parasite made Bong Joon-ho a household name, he delivered one of the most haunting detective stories of the 21st century. Memories of Murder follows a trio of detectives in 1980s South Korea as they chase a serial killer—and slowly unravel in the process.

The countdown begins! In this first episode of Reel 21, Nathan revisits Superbad—Greg Mottola’s 2007 teen comedy that launched a thousand McLovin jokes—and asks: does it really deserve a spot on The New York Times’ list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century?