A half century after its release, Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic remains the definitive big-screen take on Hercule Poirot.
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A celebration of Francis Ford Coppola’s other 1983 S.E. Hinton adaptation — one of his strangest and most beautiful films.
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On the eve of the release of “A Different Man,” we examine director Aaron Schimberg and star Adam Pearson’s previous collaboration
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Milos Forman’s masterful biopic paints a complex portrait of Mozart as a man of both heart and genius.
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As this gangster classic re-enters the Criterion Collection, we offer an ode to Bob Hoskins’s most crucial contribution: his face.
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The quintessential opening song and credits sequence for the third James Bond film were the most crucial piece that helped establish the franchise for decades.
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This 1973 production, part of the American Film Theater project, captures awe-inspiring turns by Lee Marvin and Robert Ryan.
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In response to a surprising Oscar win, Luis Buñuel doubled down on thumbing his nose at convention.
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The late, great Gena Rowlands crafts one of her finest and most complex performances as an actor under the influence
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Cary Grant shows off his acrobatic skills in Frank Capra’s ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’, which turns 80 this month. Here’s a look at this masterful blend of screwball comedy and dark satire.
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When Carol Reed’s classic thriller unspooled in London cinemas 75 years ago this week, it gripped viewers with its cynical view of a war that was still quite fresh in the mind.
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Four months before ‘Black Christmas’ invented the modern slasher, director Bob Clark dragged a much older kind of horror story through the foxholes of Vietnam to even more disturbing effect.
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