Get ready for the first real movie of the year that requires you to engage your brain in order to fully absorb the experience. V for Vendetta, written by the Wachowski brothers of Matrix fame, is in a league of its own.

Sure to rile up those who don’t believe films should delve into politics, V for Vendetta is an explosive, timely political thriller that presents an ideology sure to provoke thoughtful conversation from an audience not normally fed such high-caliber intellectual fare.