20. All The Money In The World (2017)
All the Money in the World is often remembered as the film that erased Kevin Spacey in the wake of his career-destroying allegations, but it deserves more recognition than that. Based on John Pearson’s 1995 nonfiction book Painfully Rich, the film recounts the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III and his mother’s (Michelle Williams) futile attempts to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer, replacing Spacey) to pay the ransom. This leads to increasingly desperate measures to recover her teenage son. While it functions as a fairly standard ransom thriller, it’s Williams’ powerhouse performance that elevates the movie, making it a compelling watch. It’s nothing short of a crime that her exceptional work was overlooked by the Academy Awards, earning only a Golden Globe nomination.
