Jurassic Park

Eccentric billionaire John Hammond has cloned living dinosaurs from preserved DNA and built a theme park on a remote island. He invites a select group of experts to preview it — and then everything goes catastrophically wrong. Steven Spielberg’s landmark film holds up because it never loses sight of the wonder at its center — the T-Rex reveal remains one of cinema’s great held-breath moments — while being a genuinely frightening and brilliantly paced thriller about human hubris and the chaos of nature.