In Richard Kelly’s notorious flop, the fevered landscape of post-9/11 America gets the ambitious and aggravating portrait it deserves.
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In Joyce Chopra’s adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates short story, growing up is hard to do — especially when there’s a predator knocking on your door.
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The cycle of violence is grotesque and stupid as director Miike takes movie gore to depraved new depths.
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This 1985 hit seemed like a weird film for late-era John Huston, but its dark heart and nihilistic view on romance fit perfectly into his rich filmography.
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Fassbinder’s riff on “Sunset Boulevard” depicted the decline of a movie-star in post-war Germany with stunning cinematography and a total sense of hopelessness.
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The most famous Iranian feminist vampire Western is somehow far cooler than that description reveals.
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David Cronenberg’s oppressively bleak drama “Spider” is often seen as un-Cronenbergian, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
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Philip Kaufman’s dramatization of a torrid affair between literary legends was the first-ever NC-17 movie, but this erotic drama deserves to be known for more than that.
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A new year is supposed to bring with it a clean slate but Ben Wheatley’s pitch-black family comedy reveals the lie behind that promise.
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Our annual showcase of offbeat holiday movies begins with one of the gnarliest we’ve ever recommended.
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With ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Andrea Arnold brought a literary classic into the realm of grim realism and earthy sensuality.
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Abel Ferrara brought the vampire story into the urban grit of New York malaise in this low-budget 1995 thriller.
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