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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.

Cameron Crowe’s famous flop may be best remembered for inspiring the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” but its legacy should also include being the first of 20 years of failed launches for a generation of leading men like Orlando Bloom, whose appeal couldn’t translate outside of franchises.

Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta’s adaptation of the incendiary Heinrich Böll novel premiered in the U.S. fifty years ago this week, but it feels like it hasn’t aged a day.

The Japanese punk musical might make older audiences nostalgic for the glory days of basic cable, when a film like this would have found a place in the mono-counter culture.

The feature film debut of the iconic animated British duo suffered from some American interference.

The 2000 remake of the ‘70s UK crime classic was meant to help reinvent Sylvester Stallone for the 21st century. It may have kept him stuck in time.

The world of dog shows provided the fodder for Christopher Guest’s most inspired mockumentary, unleashed 25 years ago.