With "Crash" out on Blu-ray this week from Criterion, we look back at the various attempts to translate JG Ballard's work to the screen.

When ‘Mona Lisa Smile’ arrived in theaters in 2003, many critics wrote it off as a lesser ‘Dead Poets Society’ – which is wildly reductive to both the film and its themes.

The 1990 comedy, released 30 years ago this week, is a holiday perennial and family favorite. So what are we to make of the intensity of its slapstick violence?

The Micachu and the Shapes frontwoman has become one of the most innovative and interesting composers in film. A look at what makes her work so special:

Our mini-reviews of ‘Chick Fight,’ ‘Asylum: Twisted Horror and Fantasy Tales,’ ‘My Summer as a Goth,’ and more new off-the-grid VOD releases:

How three films – by David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Andrzej Zulawski – redefined genre cinema, and the films of their children continued those traditions.

The groundbreaking actor, born 100 years ago this week, helped redefine masculinity and sexuality on- and off-screen.

This 1933 drama is a rare example of a studio film grappling seriously with the wounds of war. A look back:

As more documentarians tackle the women of the punk and pre-punk movements, are their films shattering norms like their subjects did?

With a new showcase of his work on the Criterion Channel, we look at how Albert Brooks explored the possibilities of his carefully crafted comic persona.

A very unusual dispatch from a very unusual Toronto International Film Festival.

Writer/director Charlie Kaufman’s latest, the Netflix film ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things,’ is (among other things) a thoughtful exploration of a recurring but unexamined theme in his work.

“If everybody want to stick together, I stick with ‘em. But if nobody want to stick together, I stick alone, by myself.”   -Sven Hansen In 1947, the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (because of course there was one), a political activism group that Walt...

It’s one of the most striking openings in cinema history: A burly, shirtless man in a black hood stokes a brazier, heating up a branding tool which will be used to sear the letter “S” into the flesh of accused vampire Princess Asa Vadja, who is being executed for her crimes alongside her...

You probably are not giving much thought to either The Expendables, an Avengers-style roundup of action stars with AARP cards, or Eat Pray Love, a travelogue of white feminism, as they approach their tenth anniversaries on August 13. (As you shouldn’t.) The movies have deservedly faded from...