‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies

Ferrari 2023

Michael Mann's biopic narrows to a few months of 1957: the money running out, the marriage to Laura (Penélope Cruz) coming apart after their son Dino's death, a second family with Lena (Shailene Woodley), and the Mille Miglia ahead. Sean and Chris both loved it, with Chris calling Adam Driver's Enzo the best performance he saw all year; Amanda liked it but found Woodley miscast. Adapted from Brock Yates's book; Christian Bale and later Hugh Jackman were once attached to the lead. Also with Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O'Connell, and Patrick Dempsey.

Thief 1981

Sean's No. 1: the punk-rock Mann, James Caan as a repressed, uber-professional safecracker. Robert Prosky is the heavy in disguise.

The Insider 1999

The tobacco-whistleblower procedural, Pacino and Russell Crowe sniping through an expertly tense script. Sean's No. 2; he'd have ranked it higher were it not for his love of cigarettes.

Heat 1995

Manhunter 1986

Collateral 2004

The Insider 1999

Amanda's No. 1: the journalism movie draws her in.

Collateral 2004

Amanda's No. 2: Tom Cruise playing the heavy, and an L.A.-at-night map she now recognizes as a resident.

Heat 1995

Ferrari 2023

The Last of the Mohicans 1992

A Christmas gift pick from Sean, who talked her into the slot; she admires it more than she connects to it.

Heat 1995

Chris's No. 1, and the film he says he has nothing new left to say about.

Manhunter 1986

Chris's No. 2 and the Mann he returns to most after Heat, a near-annual watch he pairs with The Silence of the Lambs.

Miami Vice 2006

Chris's No. 3 and his stated "terrible joy": the peak of Mann's digital period, a mess he's come to read as intentional. Neither Sean nor Amanda has it.

Thief 1981

Collateral 2004