Isn't the only one actually making a difference in the movies Agent Smith, by glitching up the Matrix like a virus? The whole story about Neo being the One is already calculated in by the machines.

Mad Max Fury Road, Blade Runner 2049, The Revenant, Midsommer, The Northman, Alita, Life of Pi, Arrival, Passengers, Ready Player One (eventhough its an upscale from 2k), Dune, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Saving Private Ryan, Coco, Matrix Series, Parasite, Lord of the Rings series. In addition to being visually stunning, most of these movies have amazing sound as well. The best looking films tend to be shot with medium format 6k cameras.

Always exciting to be able to root for a new up-and-coming horror director. Although I didn't much care for The Hole in the Ground, I'm hearing excellent things about Evil Dead Rise. Excited to see what else this guy is capable of before he's inevitably handed a superhero movie.

Barry Lyndon

WHAT?!!?!?!?!

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I wouldn't say there's a definitive way, its just a way to saying that a film is imitating what the filmmakers think a great film is like, without actually understanding what makes them good or being at that level. People will judge differently based on what they think is good and what they think a filmmaker is going for, just watching more good movies and deciding for yourself what you think works or doesn't will help inform your views.

I'm going for quite the arc, but here goes . . .

Ran, Akira Kurosawa - the first movie I saw on our first home projector, back in the early 90s. The second movie? Jurassic Park. Of course.

Hero, Yi-Mou Zhang - much more recent (2002). Quentin Tarantino associated, though not directed by him.

Love him or hate him, but I think anything by Quentin Tarantino is visually spectacular. Nobody choreographs blood they way he does. (Yes, I'm sure he has a team to acknowledge here).

Blade Runner, old and new(ish)

And if you're looking for simply visually stunning: Samsara, Ron Fricke (2012)

+1 for Grand Budapest Hotel. It’s visually stunning! It’s my comfort movie

Life Of Pi

Thinking of recent films, West Side Story, The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, Nightmare Alley, well, all are feast to our eyes.

Sleeping Beauty. Best animated flick in terms of a visual feast.

Also Coco is top notch too.

Title - their remaking The Thaw? That flik with Val Kilmer? Cool.

Read further - possible big nasty evil thing instead of remaking The Thaw? Cool.

Either way.. cool.

The word is most of the time heavily misused

Pretentious - attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed

People basically just say this word to sound smart rather than say, "This movie sucks!", "Affecting greater importance than is actually possessed" is usually a matter of opinion.

When it explains the meaning of the movie to you but it still doesn’t make much sense or is compelling.

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Northman

First two Pirates of the Caribbean movies

The fall

Life of Pi

The Lord of The Rings and Hobbit trilogies.
Alien 1- 3.
Each one is a visual feast.

-Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

-1917 (2019)

-Climax (2018)

-Akira (1988)

-Melancholia (2011)

-Three Colors: Red (1994)

-Vertigo (1958)

-Tree of Life (2011)

Days of Heaven

The Fall

My answer, too