Refrain
A defining entry in the Top 100 Film. Sitting at number 56, Refrain earned its place through a combination of craft, context, and consensus among the twenty-four editors who maintain this list. The companions immediately above and below it on this ranking are worth reading in the same sitting.
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About this entry
A defining entry in the Top 100 Film. Sitting at number 56, Refrain earned its place through a combination of craft, context, and consensus among the twenty-four editors who maintain this list. The companions immediately above and below it on this ranking are worth reading in the same sitting. The editors’ note placed it here on the basis of three criteria: durability across re-reads (or re-watches, or re-plays), influence on the entries that came after it, and the degree to which it could only have been made by the person — or team — who made it.
In the comparative table maintained by the Film desk, Refrain sits within a band of 53 – 59 that contains some of the most contested swaps of the year. Editors vote with arguments; a swap requires three editors and one written defense.
From Wikipedia
Remain is an upcoming American supernatural romantic thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. It is based on an idea he conceived with Nicholas Sparks, who separately wrote a version of the story as a novel published in 2025, and stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Phoebe Dynevor, Ashley Walters, and Julie Hagerty. It is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on February 5, 2027.
