10. The King (2005)

This disquieting narrative debut from the British director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) is a kind of minor Cape Fear. Gael García Bernal plays a sociopathic outsider threatening the apparently perfect life of his long-lost preacher father (William Hurt). In what now looks like a dry run for There Will Be Blood , Dano is the earnest son campaigning for creationism to be taught at school, and sideswiped by the emergence of his sinister half-brother. Variety labelled the film “noxious”. It’s undoubtedly nasty, but Dano helps to lend it a pulse.

9. Swiss Army Man (201 6)

Superficially macabre, this buddy-movie with Dano as the stranded shipwreck survivor and Daniel Radcliffe as the corpse who washes ashore is surprisingly touching. Sure, it is full of

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