Secret Weapons is a failed experiment, but like most failed experiments, the recipe for future success is present in its dysfunction.
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Crimes of the Future is a clear progression of the experimental filmmaking of Stereo and a stepping-stone towards the sexual body horror of Shivers.
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Stereo is dramatically boring, but it's an essential prototype of the sort of clinical, art-horror that Cronenberg would become known for.
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An appropriate wedding of subject matter and style from Roberto Rossellini.
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Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy remain delightful, but whatever cultural power Adam's Rib once held has been obliterated with time.
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The Shop Around the Corner is an exceptional romantic comedy that captures the intellectual and emotional fencing match that is early romance.
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There’s no better way to describe The Mission than as an exceptional jazz riff.
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As many films try to do but fail, it shows the man in the monster.
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Perhaps the pre-eminent haunted house movie of all-time.
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Innovates just enough to rise above its limitations.
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Skillful, influential trash.
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The mediocre Bigfoot family adventure.
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Relentless linear storytelling.
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Redundant but also entertainingly nasty.
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A lacklustre heist picture.
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Like Certified Copy, Like Someone in Love shows that Kiarostami’s cinematic powers are not limited to one language or culture.
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An essential work for anyone with an interest in Iranian filmmaking or art cinema in general.
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Rickman and Thompson excel at Austen.
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A definitive argument for the character (and the series') effectiveness.
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For its look and feel, Sleepy Hollow is one of Burton's best.
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