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Enemy of the State (1998)

Will Smith in his prime opposite a seasoned, paranoid Gene Hackman made Enemy of the State an instant classic. Hackman has always felt like an old actor, but he rarely got to play one. Enemy of the State let him school an electric Smith on the emerging surveillance state with grizzled wisdom and curmudgeonly charm. Plus the movie’s MacGuffin is a digital camera recording wedged into a Game Boy, because all technology is fun and whimsical until it accidentally implicates you in a conspiratorial coverup. — Ethan Gach

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