Released 45 years ago this week, Lewis Teague’s witty and well-crafted animal-attack thriller is far more than a “Jaws” rip-off.
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Noah Baumbach’s latest boasts wonderful performances from an all-star cast, but can’t quite decide what it wants to be.
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Zhang Yimou’s début kicked off a legendary partnership with actress Gong Li, and signaled the beginning of a new era of Chinese cinema.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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There are images and moments in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados that stick in the memory long after the final fadeout, and they’re not necessarily the most overtly surreal ones: A blind man’s stare-down with a rooster after he has been knocked to the ground. A pigeon being rubbed on a sick woman’s back. A legless […]
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In honor of the actor’s 100th birthday this week, we look back at a role that offered him the rare chance to underplay his brash persona.
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Cyndi Lauper’s willingness to experiment in different media has played a role in her career-long ubiquity…including a side hustle as a character actress.
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Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 thriller is one of the greatest of all films noir, full of dangerous dames, cigarette smoke, and Robert Mitchum not giving a damn.
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This little-seen 1973 TV movie is one of the most sophisticated adaptations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
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Joachim Trier’s latest is a one of the year’s best, a staggeringly poignant and emotionally complicated story of family, art, and their intersections.
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Between Oscar winners, the late Diane Keaton co-starred in a send-up of Russian literature that showed off her prodigious comedic gifts.
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Our mini-reviews of “Icefall,” “300 Letters,” “Wormtown,” and more new under-the-radar on-demand offerings.
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