Azul

Scale, imagination and the sense of the extraordinary.

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

How much attention the structure and ideas demand.

Physical momentum — chases, combat, set pieces.

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

How much it is designed to move you.

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.

How much of the story is withheld and unravelled.

How central love and intimacy are to the story.

How much it is built to unsettle or frighten.

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.