Mike Nichols never made a musical. But in his adaptation of Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel, he came very close.

The contemporary music and cultural bookmarks of the two films - released within a week of each other twenty years ago – weren’t inserted in...

When it hit theaters 25 years ago, critics dismissed it as an empty blockbuster. But looking back, ‘Twister’ has more heart and soul than it gets...

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

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...

The 1974 drama – now streaming on the Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime Video – offers an uncommonly insightful (and often unforgiving) peek...

How Tony Scott reinvigorated his style in the 1990s with spiritual sequels to three 1970s classics.

Towards a unifying theory of cinematic burnouts.

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.

Abel Ferrara’s revenge thriller (released forty years ago this month) remains both a genre masterpiece and a staggering examination of sexual...

This rousing Western adventure was one of Charles Bronson’s first films after ‘Death Wish’ – and the kind of movie he stopped making because...

Our go-to images of the 1950s – white picket fences, conspicuous consumption, cheerful conformity – are often, and effectively, contradicted by...

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...

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....

Originally released in 1971, Ken Russell’s masterwork remains unavailable in the director’s preferred version.