Even heady proclamations like the ‘Greatest Film Ever Made’ cannot overstate how powerful this picture is. The story of a mercurial newsp...

Jia Zhangke's revered masterwork of the last decade shines as one of the definitive films of this unique period in political, economi...

 In the late 1950s the prolific duo of director Budd Boetticher and  star Randolph Scott made a number of Westerns that would influence fil...

Gone With the Wind is that rare case where its desire for ‘grandeur’ trickles down successfully through every aspect of production. From ...

One of Sam Peckinpah's handful or more unquestionable triumphs, a classic morality tale that furthers his career examination of v...

It takes a special kind of filmmaker at the right point in his/her career to make a film so grand and admirable a failure. No matter whic...

The frank and dispassionate discussions and depictions of sex of an underage teen seen through the eyes of an even younger pre-teen girl ...

This film gets me every time. The final moments, when the Chief discovers McMurphy’s been lobotomized, kills him out of pity, then complet...

It took 13 years for Sergio Leone to get this, his last film, onto the big screen. For the most part the time away served him well, as th...

By 1981, Brian De Palma was well into his ’Hitchcock period’, a string of films in the late 70s going back to 1973’s Sisters, but really...

The iconic shot of the athletes wearing Wimbledon white, running through the beach, splashing water in slow motion set to the synthesized...

Perhaps the ultimate film about the male bravado, four city men, in the outback of Appalachia, out to conquer nature and canoe down the r...

As an exercise in research, I read some of the original reviews for A Streetcar Named Desire, both the 1951 film and the original Broadwa...

Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur, Shane Meadows' This is England and Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank have, of late, carried on the tra...