Justin Sainton

Shot entirely in Tokyo, this elegant fable is Wim Wenders’ best fiction feature in decades. Although it flirts with glibness, Perfect Days asks questions about how to find joy in imperfect situations.

Guinness World Records at first rejected a tower replica that Richard Plaud made from more than 700,000 matchsticks. But on further review, the organization said it might have been too “heavy-handed.”