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As he celebrates his 100th birthday, a look back at one of Dick Van Dyke’s most challenging, memorable, and apparently personal turns.

On its 60th anniversary, a look at Elizabeth Hartman’s dazzling debut turn, and what happened to her career in its wake.

On its 25th anniversary, a look back at the movie that severed Miramax’s relationship with Billy Bob Thornton — and put his directorial side hustle to an end.

Juzo Itami’s comic masterpiece remains one of the greatest films about food ever made. Just don’t watch it on an empty stomach

Martin Scorsese’s Vegas mob drama features the single most wince-inducing sequence of his entire filmography.

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film is just as hard to watch as it was half a century ago, but it’s even more necessary today.

“Walk Hard” was a diss track in cinematic form that dismantles the script of “Walk the Line” so thoroughly that it might as well be a beat-for-beat remake

Released 45 years ago this week, Lewis Teague’s witty and well-crafted animal-attack thriller is far more than a “Jaws” rip-off.

There are images and moments in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados that stick in the memory long after the final fadeout, and […]

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.