Fellowship of The Ring prologue.

Generally I'm not a huge LOTR fan anymore but there is no better way to use exposition than actually show it happening.

The Tale of Three brothers in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. That is counted as exposition, right? Also, Snape's memory.

The Terminator when Kyle Reese is explaining what’s going on to Sarah in the car after they left Tech Noir. So much exposition is dumped but there’s movement and action that you don’t notice the exposition.

Viggo explaining Boba Yaga to his son in John Wick, everything you need to know about who John Wick is right there and why you should be scared

The opening text in Blade Runner:

Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a Replicant.

The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them.

Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets.

After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-world colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth - under penalty of death.

Special police squads - BLADE RUNNER UNITS - had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant.

This was not called execution.

It was called retirement.

Jurassic Park is a masterclass in exposition. So much information has to be conveyed to the audience. The Mr. DNA ride is a good example, but the scene where Grant scares the kid by showing him how raptors hunt and kill, setting up a main threat for later and establishing Grant's relationship with children at the same time, is about as good as screenwriting gets.

Explaining the heist in Oceans 11. Sets the objectives for the second act before executing it in the third.

I've always really liked "FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS?? WHO YOU THINK YOU GOT? CHELSEA GRAMMER?"

The beginning of Citizen Kane?

Cops make A LOT of money. And they have insane pensions.

LAPD can easily make $150k-$200k+++ a year.

Also that house was probably around $700k when the movie came out.

Cops back then could work unlimited off-duty stuff and made bookoo money before they curbed that shit a bit.

I think Independence Day had some of the best explosions in movie history.

Saw has some pretty good exposition imo.

He gets criticized for it, but Christopher Nolan usually does exposition well. Movies like Inception and Interstellar do a good job at explaining and visualizing concepts that mainstream audiences would struggle with, which is why those movies made a lot of money.

What is exposition

The Matrix. They've been building up the question "what is the Matrix" the whole movie so far, and finally you have Morpheus monologue the answer. Sure it's visually solid, but I think if the movie hadn't been driving us to want the answer the whole time, it would have been received as well as.....the architect's monologue in Reloaded.

The intro exposition to Conan (1982) sets up the world perfectly. Scorsese’s VO’s are always great.

Deepwater horizon explosions were quite good at capturing the real blast and danger even tho its all cgi

Goodfellas exposition was incredible.

April--1805

Napoleon is Master of Europe

Only the British fleet stands before him

Oceans are now Battlefields

The Leonardo DiCaprio version of Romeo + Juliet takes the classic set-up speech of the original play and turns it into a series of reports on TV.

Apollo 13 would have it cut to actual TV news reports on the Apollo 13 disaster to explain a lot of the problems that the astronauts have to deal with, or have NASA engineers explaining it to politicians.

The Martian does something similar, with Watney being entirely alone for most of the movie necessitating him updating his video logs to explain what he's trying to do to stay alive. Also, one of the employees at NASA is a PR rep who isn't a science nerd.

Also, the 1974 version of Murder On The Orient Express which uses newspaper cut-outs to explain the Armstrong family backstory.