– Director: Robert Altman

– Stacker score: 88.0

– Metascore: 86

– IMDb user rating: 7.5

– Runtime: 124 minutes

A scathing satire on the film industry, “The Player” is based on a novel of the same name. Tim Robbins plays a studio executive who is receiving death threats from a writer whose work he rejected, though he isn’t sure which writer it is. The film opens with an unforgettable eight-minute-long tracking shot.