7 Iconic Movies That’ll Instantly Make You Smarter 

It can sometimes feel like mainstream movies dull our brains. “Relax, sheeple, and feel your mind turn to mush,” they seem to say, even as they beg us to ignore their plot holes, leaps of logic, and blatant lack of understanding of human behavior.

YouTube channels like Pitch Meeting and Honest Trailers make a pretty penny off of this cinematic trend towards lunacy, calling out storytelling inconsistencies and corporate greed with glee. And yet, some movies manage to buck this trend,...