In “The Brink’s Job,” director William Friedkin and screenwriter Walon Green found the humor in one of the most notorious bank robberies in Boston by playing with the standards set by previous crime films set in the Commonwealth.
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First released in December 1973, Robin Hardy’s folk horror remains a fascinating piece of mishandled cinema.
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The 1997 crime film/modern-day western is one of Stallone’s best performances. And one of his most personal.
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Twenty years ago, Miramax dropped the filthiest, funniest gift into theaters – following even more behind-the-scenes drama than usual.
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Sixty years ago, Georges Franju paid tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes with an affectionate remake of Louis Feuillade’s “Judex.”
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The 1988 coming-of-age tale ‘Cinema Paradiso’ was practically patient zero when it came to Miramax taking a middlebrow foreign film and turning it into a much-adored, Oscar-winning hit.
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Two decades ago, Park Chan-wook’s revenge thriller reinvented Korean cinema. A decade Later, Spike Lee remade it.
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Tina Turner turned in a pair of indelible screen performances that extended—and, in some cases, subverted—the qualities that made her appealing on record and in concert.
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Forty years after its debut, “Michael Jackson’s Thriller” remains in a category all by itself.
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Michael Cimino’s controversial Oscar winner (now streaming on Netflix) remains a model of atmosphere, authenticity, and mood.
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This unique horror film uses a serial killer’s crimes as a window on urban repression and loneliness.
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The best theatrical Looney Tunes project is also the one its own studio appeared to have the most contempt for.
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In a season of high-profile labor actions, Barbara Kopple’s Oscar-winning 1976 documentary feels more essential than ever.
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On the 40th anniversary of its release, an examination of Bob Fosse’s final film, and what it has to say about sexual violence and exploitation.
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In boarding school dramas like ‘Dead Poets Society,’ ‘Tea and Sympathy,’ ‘The Emperor’s Club,’ and the new ‘The Holdovers,’ filmmakers deftly explore the complications of upper-class abandonment.
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