Tom Cruise’s star vehicle has a greater depth and wider influence than you might think – even if it took several decades to become apparent.
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Ann Hui’s neglected 2002 drama (out this week in a new 4K restoration) explores age-gap relationships as a cycle of abuse and symptom of marital unhappiness.
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Paul Verhoeven left Hollywood to make a film about the Dutch resistance, but that didn’t mean he became respectable.
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The 2024 Karlovy Vary Film Festival devoted part of its lineup to the Western genre.
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Bill L. Norton’s 1972 drama (now streaming on Amazon Prime) is a melancholy portrait of bad vibes and burnouts, featuring an unforgettable Kris Kristofferson in the title role.
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Before ‘Longlegs,’ filmmaker Osgood Perkins was already a master of the haunting horror tone poem.
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In her Gotham-set trilogy “Smithereens,” “Desperately Seeking Susan,” and “Cookie,” director Susan Seidelman explored the quirks and eccentricities of ‘80s women.
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If epics are defined as a “body of legend or tradition” illuminating the lives of single, indefinable people, all of Powell and Pressburger’s work could be described as “epic”.
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When he was offered the job in late 1963, Richard Lester was well-positioned to tackle the assignment of directing the Beatles […]
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The 1937 screwball comedy can be enjoyed as one of the best of its type—and as a historic record of the moment a screen persona was perfected.
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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 the oldest living actress of Hollywood’s golden age celebrates her 100th birthday, we reconsider her work in the two stone-cold classics of her career.
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