The imaginative collaboration between director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and writer Joss Whedon got the sci-fi/horror series back on track after a disastrous third installment.
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Frank Marshall’s “thrill-omedy” deftly combines Hitchcockian suspense with campy 1950s creature feature fun, but there’s more to this film than basic B-movie entertainment.
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A quarter century ago, Roland Emmerich’s Revolutionary War blockbuster gave the actor his juiciest film role yet — and he’s been presumed villainous ever since.
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The Farrelly Brothers’ 1996 comedy, ‘The Big Lebowski,’ and ‘Buffalo ’66′ combined for an all-too-brief trend of films that captured the sport’s allure and eccentricities.
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Released at the same time Barack Obama was sweeping the 2008 Democratic primaries, Margaret Brown’s documentary about Mobile, Ala.’s segregated Mardi Gras celebrations is a potent reminder of a time when hope and change were plentiful.
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A film as flawed as its narcissistic protagonist, Cameron Crowe’s second collaboration with Tom Cruise is a master class in depicting toxic relationships.
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“When one townie falls in the forest, can anyone hear it?” — The Hold Steady, “One for the Cutters” Arriving near […]
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Jonathan Levine’s stoner comedy pays homage to Christmas movie forebears and poignantly captures the particular joys and melancholy of old friendships.
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Billy Wilder’s wildest comedy rides a relentless pace, biting Cold War satire, and one of James Cagney’s best performances to cinematic victory.
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A half century after its release, Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic remains the definitive big-screen take on Hercule Poirot.
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One of cinema’s strongest indictments of the American Dream, Brian De Palma’s 1981 political thriller dredges up what were then still fresh memories of the JFK assassination, Chappaquiddick, and Watergate, and reopens these unhealed wounds.
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As well as its jokes and social commentary hold up 25 years after its release, the film’s songs and grasp of musical theater history increasingly feel like its defining elements.
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