Richard Linklater’s animated take on Philip K. Dick’s classic novel remains disturbingly relevant two decades later.
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Don’t let Harvey Weinstein win. Here’s why James Gray’s period drama, which the disgraced distributor attempted to bury over a decade ago, deserves to be recognized as both a masterpiece and a canonical work of American cinema.
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Often viewed as his most “normal” film, David Lynch’s sophomore feature is as Lynchian as what came before and after it.
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Degaussed documents, time travel, stunt-casting: And you thought Freedom 250 was a fiasco.
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A commercial disappointment on its release in the summer of 1986, John Carpenter’s action comedy has proven to have remarkable staying power.
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David Hughes’s chronicle of the disastrous production of the notorious Bruce Willis bomb is a funny, informative page-turner — and a lament for the persona (and even the kind of film) that it unceremoniously ended.
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The 1987 screwball comedy is a Swiss watch of comic precision.
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Jeannot Szwarc’s 1984 film about Kara Zor-El is full of corny and endearing details that mark it as a charming relic and a character (and story) ripe for revision.
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The 1977 cult favorite (joining the Criterion Collection this week) is a “Salò”-esque fable of the tackiness of fascism.
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Raoul Walsh’s chronicle of the Prohibition era is a thrilling American epic in miniature.
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“Gidget” popularized teen beach movies, but Cliff Robertson is its deep, dark soul.
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From the start of her music career, Love engaged with the mythos and toxicity of the movies. It was inevitable that the movies would eventually come calling.
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