In 1953, nobody knew who Audrey Hepburn was. She had played some minor roles in a handful of movies, but she was, for all...
Ghost, the highest grossing film of 1990, was a unique and unexpected blockbuster stitched together out of an unlikely mix of genre traits, creative...
The late 1970s and ’80s were the heyday of Hollywood adolescent misfit movies, which partially explains why Troop Zero, which is clearly descended (although...
Days of Thunder, which reunited star Tom Cruise, director Tony Scott, and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, is such a naked attempt to...
Disparaged by French critics during in its initial run in 1969, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (L’Armée des ombres) has enjoyed a critical re-evaluation...
W. Eugene Smith was one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century. More than just a brilliant and prolific photographer, he was a...
The Cranes Are Flying (Letjat zhuravli) tells an old, melodramatic war story in visual terms that are so striking and evocative that you are...
In Dark Waters, Mark Ruffalo plays Robert Bilott, a real-life corporate-defense attorney-turned-environmental crusader who took on DuPont, one of the biggest chemical companies on...
Set during the mid-1980s and based on Tom Clancy’s debut novel, The Hunt for Red October is the kind of action thriller that is...
As further evidence that he is one of the most agile and versatile writer-directors currently working, Rian Johnson has jumped genres once again in...