The Maysles Brothers’ documentary about a pair of eccentric patrician recluses is not just a spectacle of decay, but a portrait of captivating, irrepressible vitality.
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Beneath the pitch-black comedy that audiences rejected it for, Lawrence Kasdan’s 1990 farce is a heartwarming, true story about how love is stronger than bullets, car bombs, and attempted murder convictions.
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If you divorce Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights from the original Emily Brontë book, there’s more to like and less to get hung up on. The title of this 2026 take is even set in quotes, like winks accompanying the words designed in a romance-novel-worthy font, telling you not to take it too seriously. […]
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Twenty years after its release, and with a new stage version playing on Broadway, we look back at William Friedkin and Tracy Letts’s berserk and prophetic horror romance.
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The 1999 teen rom-com is widely beloved these days — but it’s tonally inexplicable and morally reprehensible, so of course it came from Harvey Weinstein.
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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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Whether working separately or collaborating on a film project, Elvis and Osgood Perkins have created a body of work that reflects the anxieties and melancholy of mortality.
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The best-loved of director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s three collaborations with novelist Kobe Abe presents a battle of the sexes of primordial proportions.
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The 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam devoted one of its retrospectives to Japanese direct-to-video genre movies.
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Gregory La Cava’s 1936 hit is the quintessential screwball comedy, a rapid-fire, ceaselessly funny exploration of sex, class, and chaos.
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Though Martin Scorsese was no neophyte in 1976, his dark masterpiece started a string of classics that people choose to misunderstand.
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This gay BDSM rom-com wears its big ol’ heart on its leather sleeve.
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