When he was offered the job in late 1963, Richard Lester was well-positioned to tackle the assignment of directing the Beatles in their first feature. A television veteran just coming off The Mouse on the Moon (the Peter Sellers-free sequel to The Mouse That Roared) for producer Walter Shenson, Lester’s own debut was the 1962 […]
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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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Ti West’s porn-and-violence trilogy concludes not with a bang, but a whimper.
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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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The latest installment in Eddie Murphy’s action/comedy franchise, three decades in coming, is one of the loveliest surprises of the year.
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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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In memory of Donald Sutherland, we look back at his staring role in Federico Fellini’s historical epic of sex, love, and debauchery.
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As well as its jokes and social commentary hold up 25 years after its release, the film’s songs and grasp of musical theater history increasingly feel like its defining elements.
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Jacques Demy’s enchanting, heartsick 1961 debut isn’t a musical, but that’s not for lack of trying.
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This prequel starring Lupita Nyong’o features fewer thrills but equal pleasures to its predecessors.
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A commercial failure upon its release and all but forgotten since, the Paul Schrader / Michael J. Fox / Joan Jett team-up doesn’t quite land, but has moments of electricity.
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