At just 20 years old, Greta Garbo sailed from Sweden to the United States to film “Torrent,” the first of three pictures released in 1926. In the words of one prescient newspaper writer, “Miss Garbo is scheduled for stardom.”
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Controversial Polish director Andrzej Zulawski passed away in February 2016, months before his final film debuted in America. Ten years later, we look back on his absurdist swan song.
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Our mini-reviews of “Ted Bunny,” “Hellfire,” “Last Ride,” and more new under-the-radar on-demand offerings.
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Tim Curry’s outrageous and insouciant performance as an iconic pirate helps this family-friendly adaptation stand the test of time.
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In Luis Buñuel’s overlooked adaptation, the frenzied emotions of Heathcliff and Cathy are transported to the barren plains of Mexico.
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The Maysles Brothers’ documentary about a pair of eccentric patrician recluses is not just a spectacle of decay, but a portrait of captivating, irrepressible vitality.
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Beneath the pitch-black comedy that audiences rejected it for, Lawrence Kasdan’s 1990 farce is a heartwarming, true story about how love is stronger than bullets, car bombs, and attempted murder convictions.
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If you divorce Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights from the original Emily Brontë book, there’s more to like and less to get hung up on. The title of this 2026 take is even set in quotes, like winks accompanying the words designed in a romance-novel-worthy font, telling you not to take it too seriously. […]
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Twenty years after its release, and with a new stage version playing on Broadway, we look back at William Friedkin and Tracy Letts’s berserk and prophetic horror romance.
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The 1999 teen rom-com is widely beloved these days — but it’s tonally inexplicable and morally reprehensible, so of course it came from Harvey Weinstein.
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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, […]
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Whether working separately or collaborating on a film project, Elvis and Osgood Perkins have created a body of work that reflects the anxieties and melancholy of mortality.
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