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Romeo and Juliet

Be honest: what teen of the '90s and '00s didn't swoon a little bit over the wild, over-the-top Baz Luhrmann adaptation of Romeo and Juliet? It's got young Claire Danes and a pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio as its leads, a bizarre but magical anachronistic aesthetic, and all the emotions and tragedy that stuffier adaptations might not have tapped into quite as powerfully. It's not a movie for everyone, and it didn't exactly spark a long line of imitators, but you can't talk about this era of movies without paying tribute to Luhrmann's wildly weird work.

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