Joseph: King of Dreams should enjoy heavy rotation among families who want to show Bible movies to their children.
Read MoreRetelling a Sami legend, Nils Gaup’s Pathfinder is both an act of cultural preservation and a thrilling action-adventure.
Read MoreSydney Pollack’s Best Picture winner feels like a film of a different age, and is all the better for it.
Read MoreNight Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck is a reminder of the salacious storytelling of pre-Code Hollywood.
Read MoreShipwrecked is a competent boys’ own adventure, played without irony, revisionism, or computer-generated fakeness.
Read MoreMichael Curtiz’s Doctor X demonstrates the perverse strangeness of pre-Code horror.
Read MoreThe third Pirates film threatens to spin out of control, but such an eccentric vision of a dark and whimsical fantasy world has rarely been as vividly imagined on screen.
Read MoreDead Man’s Chest is the best film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, a big, fun, rollicking adventure.
Read MoreAt 50, George Lucas’s masterpiece of nostalgia is far deeper, more complex, more innovative, and more influential than is often remembered.
Jon Else’s documentary The Day After Trinity is a useful nonfiction companion to Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Read MoreThis Clint Eastwood-starring psychosexual thriller interrogates Eastwood’s onscreen persona in a way similar to Sudden Impact.
Read MoreClint Eastwood’s Sudden Impact, the fourth Dirty Harry picture, combines the rape-revenge film with the reactionary cop picture to fascinating results.
Read MoreIn Expedition: Bismarck, James Cameron uses the conventions of television historical documentaries to present a portrait of himself as a storyteller and an amateur scientist.
Read MoreRoger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death is more effective as a late-night Gothic thriller than as an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story.
Read MoreShinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a hallucinogenic fever dream made by a mad man.
Read MoreThis childhood favourite is tightly narrated, well-structured, and seriously-made yet loose and fun.
Read MoreGene Tierney gives her most iconic performance in this terrific Technicolor noir.
Read MoreThis 2015 documentary about Ukrainian Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko asks the question: what does it look like to live out the gospel in the modern world?
Read MoreGaslight is a brilliant, disturbing portrait of psychological torment in the domestic sphere.
Read MoreWarren Beatty’s political satire, Bulworth, finds new relevance in a post-Trump world.
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