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Released 80 years ago this week, Vincente Minnelli’s musical remains a vibrant jolt of nostalgic warmth.

Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh star in this appealingly low-key Christmas rom-com, released 75 years ago this week.

The crowning achievement of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands’s decades-long partnership is a grueling portrait of a couple that can’t live together but can’t survive apart.

For its 30th anniversary, we look back at a small but ambitious film from New Zealand that catapulted a horror filmmaker to A-list-director status and launched the acclaimed careers of its two young stars. 

On the 20th anniversary of its release — and with his latest critically drubbed technical experiment in theaters — a look back at the film that may have derailed Robert Zemeckis’s entire career.

Thanks to the inspiration Wes Craven drew from lived experiences, ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ (which turns 40 this week) maintains a tenuous but powerful connection to the real world, making it all the more chilling.

One, released 20 years ago, captured a singular, distinctive voice. The other, released 25 years ago, was the very definition of a group effort. Yet each are among Pixar’s finest and most beloved works.

‘Saw’ (released 20 years ago this week) launched a franchise, a genre, and several careers. It’s also endearingly bad. 

With Toho’s Godzilla turning 70, here’s a look at how it became the giant, radioactive monster that could.

Overlooked in Mike Leigh’s filmography, ‘Vera Drake’ is quietly radical in its portrayal of abortion as a mere fact of everyday life.

Back in the day, Disney Channel Original Movies (or DCOMs, if you like)  were event television for the preteen set. During […]

A quarter-century ago, Steven Soderbergh and Terence Stamp collaborated on a memorably disturbing antihero who remains one of the great revenge-film antiheroes.