While best-known as an outright comedy director thanks to Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Step Brothers, here Adam McKay turns in a brutally succinct takedown of the American greed causing the Global Financial Crisis. Still, there’s a joy to the original that’s hard to top. It’s hard to pick favourites between this and its superb first sequel, involving a time leap forward to the distant future of 2015, and relishing its detailed depictions of a timeline in which Biff Tannen channels the grossness of Trump. Robert Zemeckis’s enduring classic sees a teenager struggle with travelling back in time (as well as struggling with the Oedipal complex) after being transported to a confusing era, 30 years in the past-a time gap that suggests if this were made now, Marty McFly’s destination would be the ancient epoch of 1990 rather than 1955. And, of course, the man who made Bond famous-Sean Connery (take your pick, really). Underrated drama? Timothy Dalton in Licence to Kill. Flashback to a beloved Nintendo 64 game with Pierce Brosnan? GoldenEye, of course. Campy Roger Moore era? The Spy Who Loved Me. Brooding, serious Daniel Craig? Go for some Casino Royale. With Prime Video home to every James Bond film, you’re spoiled for choice depending on your mood.
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