There is a film I want more people to watch and it's A Separation (2011) by Asghar Farhadi.

I say this not because it is obscure — it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film — but because it has been filed away in a mental category called 'important foreign films I should probably watch' and never actually watched.

The film presents a moral situation with no correct answer and then has the discipline to never provide one. Every character is right about something. Every character is wrong about something. The film never signals whose side you should be on and never resolves into a comfortable ambiguity.

This is what drama is supposed to do and it almost never does it this cleanly. Farhadi constructs the film like a thriller about information — who knows what, when, and what they do with it. It runs 123 minutes and there is not a single wasted scene.