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The 1977 WWII epic (now streaming on Netflix) is a good, old-fashioned entertainment – in more than one way.

Sergio Corbucci’s influential, much-imitated Spaghetti Western remains thrilling, nasty, and proudly disreputable.

It spawned one of the most ubiquitous memes on the Internet. The rest of the movie (now streaming on HBO Max) is pretty great too.

Well, the ‘Paddington 2’/’Citizen Kane’ Rotten Tomatoes story did one thing: it gave ‘Kane’ fans a new villain, after years of jeering this, its Best Picture usurper.

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.

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.

From the Criterion Channel’s new Dirk Bogarde program, a look at Luchino Visconti’s “beautiful film that is deeply hard to watch.”

Fellini’s first color feature spotlights one of his most important leading ladies, and presents a striking contrast to his better-known works.

Preston Sturges’s definitive screwball came early in one of the most remarkable runs of any writer/director’s career.

Gordon Parks Jr. and Max Julien’s riff on ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ in this entertaining and often subversive Black Western.