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How much it is built to unsettle or frighten.

How bleak the tone and subject matter run.

The sustained pressure it keeps you under.

How quickly the story moves scene to scene.

Filmmaking quality — direction, writing and recognition.

How much it is designed to move you.

Physical momentum — chases, combat, set pieces.

How much of the story is withheld and unravelled.

How much attention the structure and ideas demand.

Scale, imagination and the sense of the extraordinary.

How central love and intimacy are to the story.

How often it is genuinely funny, by design.