The Usual Suspects

This film blew me away. Like everyone else, Director Bryan Singer and screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie carefully structured Verbal Kint's story, to make everyone think "Dean Keaton is Keyser Soze but Kint doesn't know it", so the audience thinks they've sussed out the "twist" ending, but wow! I remember walking down the stairs from the balcony at Church Street, feeling like a trapdoor had been opened under my feet, thinking "wow. wow. wow." (August 21st and September 15th, 1995)

Update: I watched The Usual Suspects again in 2014, and while it's still great, I noticed some very 1990s touches, including the excessive Tarantino-style swearing - I know they're criminals, but the cursing becomes grating - and the moment at the very beginning when Keyser Soze is about to shoot Dean Keaton...he turns his gun sideways! Holding your Glock sideways was SO COOL in 1995, but now it's a joke. Having the supreme mysterious badass hold his gun sideways is now hilarious, I almost laughed out loud.