8 Long Mysteries Worth Every Minute of a Lazy Sunday. Cancel Your Plans.

Sunday is for couches, snacks and movies that refuse to end on time. These eight run long, and the numbers say every minute pays rent.

Number one got a B minus CinemaScore. Audiences were wrong. Fight me.

1. 8
   The Batman (2022)8.2

   The Batman is a detective movie wearing a superhero costume.

   Pattinson spends more time reading clues than throwing punches, and it still made $772.8 million worldwide. The third act drags, but the Riddler puzzle stuff is legit great.
2. 7
   Prisoners (2013)7.6

   Prisoners deserves better than its 7.6 movie.guru score.

   Critics gave it a 70 on Metacritic, but 965,231 IMDb voters pushed it to 8.2. Jackman and Gyllenhaal turn a kidnapping case into slow, heavy dread.
3. 6
   Gone Girl (2014)8.0

   Gone Girl ruins date night, and that's the whole point.

   Audiences handed it a B CinemaScore, probably because they watched it next to a spouse. Rosamund Pike is ice cold, and it grossed $370.9 million worldwide anyway.
4. 5
   Blade Runner 2049 (2017)8.7

   Blade Runner 2049 underperformed at the box office. Theaters were wrong.

   $92.1 million domestic against a reported $150 million budget. Gosling mostly stares into fog, and somehow that's the point. Guru's Take: 9.1, second highest on this list.
5. 4
   Anatomy of a Fall (2023)9.3

   Anatomy of a Fall is a courtroom drama scarier than horror.

   Made on a reported $6.7 million, it pulled $36 million worldwide and a 96 on Rotten Tomatoes. Sandra Hüller makes you flip your verdict every twenty minutes.
6. 3
   Mulholland Drive (2001)9.0

   Mulholland Drive makes zero sense, and that's why it works.

   Lynch made $7.2 million domestic and a generation of people drawing diagrams on napkins. Guru's Take: 9.2, the highest here. You won't fully get it. That's fine.
7. 2
   Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)9.4

   Redux is bloated, and it's still the highest-scored movie here.

   A 9.4 movie.guru score, with critics and audiences in total agreement. Guru's Take sits at 8.7 because the extra footage slows the boat. Brando, Duvall and Sheen still hit like thunder.
8. 1
   Zodiac (2007)7.3

   Zodiac is Fincher's best movie. Yes, over Gone Girl.

   Audiences gave it a B minus CinemaScore and a 7.3 movie.guru score. My Guru's Take is 8.9. It's a movie about paperwork and obsession, and it's riveting.

$463.81 says you pause Zodiac to look up the real case before the halfway mark.

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