In the inaugural edition of our new column spotlighting great movies that Harvey Weinstein tried to bury, a look back at Zhang Yimou’s wuxia marvel ‘Hero,’ which sat on the Miramax shelf for two-plus years.
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The 1974 drama – now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime Video – offers an uncommonly insightful (and often unforgiving) peek into the mind of the compulsive gambler.
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How Tony Scott reinvigorated his style in the 1990s with spiritual sequels to three 1970s classics.
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Towards a unifying theory of cinematic burnouts.
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On its 70th anniversary, a look back at the chilling sci-fi/horror film that is, these days, too often viewed only in comparison to its remake.
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Abel Ferrara’s revenge thriller (released forty years ago this month) remains both a genre masterpiece and a staggering examination of sexual politics and rape culture.
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This rousing Western adventure was one of Charles Bronson’s first films after ‘Death Wish’ – and the kind of movie he stopped making because of that film’s success.
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Our go-to images of the 1950s – white picket fences, conspicuous consumption, cheerful conformity – are often, and effectively, contradicted by the cinema of the era.
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Werner Herzog seemed like an unlikely director for a Nicolas Cage cop movie. But the resultant collaboration was steeped in the director’s customary themes and preoccupations.
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It’s the earliest Marx Brothers movie streaming as part of Criterion Channel’s new Marx program – and it tells us much about their longevity and appeal.
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With only one week between them, the film adaptations of ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ and ‘The Kids in the Hall’ hit theaters 25 years ago. It didn’t go so well for either of them.
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Originally released in 1971, Ken Russell’s masterwork remains unavailable in the director’s preferred version.
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