Tina Turner turned in a pair of indelible screen performances that extended—and, in some cases, subverted—the qualities that made her appealing on record and in concert.
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Forty years after its debut, “Michael Jackson’s Thriller” remains in a category all by itself.
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Michael Cimino’s controversial Oscar winner (now streaming on Netflix) remains a model of atmosphere, authenticity, and mood.
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This unique horror film uses a serial killer’s crimes as a window on urban repression and loneliness.
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The best theatrical Looney Tunes project is also the one its own studio appeared to have the most contempt for.
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In a season of high-profile labor actions, Barbara Kopple’s Oscar-winning 1976 documentary feels more essential than ever.
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On the 40th anniversary of its release, an examination of Bob Fosse’s final film, and what it has to say about sexual violence and exploitation.
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In boarding school dramas like ‘Dead Poets Society,’ ‘Tea and Sympathy,’ ‘The Emperor’s Club,’ and the new ‘The Holdovers,’ filmmakers deftly explore the complications of upper-class abandonment.
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Brian De Palma and Al Pacino’s other gangster classic deserves recognition as one of their best.
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Yasujiro Ozu’s 1953 masterpiece (now streaming on Max and the Criterion Channel) remains a heart-wrenching work of quiet minimalism.
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Ida Lupino and Richard Widmark lead this underrated 1940s thriller full of assertive sexuality and barbed takedowns.
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Woody Allen’s Miramax movies were a quartet of dirty-minded, star-studded screwball comedies where a post-scandal Allen was at his most invincible — and most unrepentant.
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