When Joe Wright made his take on Austen’s classic in 2005, he had to find a way to make this oft-told tale fresh. Here’s how he did it:

I recently discovered there are two types of people in this world: Kentucky Fried Movie people and Amazon Women in the Moon people. Even though...

On this, its 30th anniversary, it’s as easy as ever to dismiss Kevin Costner’s Oscar-winning Western epic. But it’s not quite that simple.

Orson Welles’s 1947 thriller is a must-add for your "Noirvember" watchlist – and a rich match of style and substance.

In ‘Jacob’s Ladder,’ released 30 years ago this week, director Adrian Lyne plumbed the depths of psychological horror and came up with a deeply...

On the eve of the election, a look back at the 1999 Nixon comedy – and how it predicted the recent demystifying of a journalistic legend.

The 2000 film adaptation of the ‘70s series hit theaters 20 years ago, offering audiences just the right mix of action and winking self-awareness....

George A. Romero’s mis-marketed and misunderstood 1972 film is a fascinating example of a genre filmmaker stretching his legs, applying his visual...

How three films – by David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Andrzej Zulawski – redefined genre cinema, and the films of their children continued...

On the 20th anniversary of its release, a look back at the astonishingly visceral, deeply felt performance by the great Ellen Burstyn.

The Wes Craven / Eddie Murphy team-up, which hit screens 25 years ago this week, doesn’t quite work – but it offers a road map of the direction...

Released barely a year after the groundbreaking and wildly profitable original, ‘Blair Witch 2’ was immediately reviled, and then quickly...

John D. Hancock’s 1971 film (now streaming on The Criterion Channel) sounds like a slasher movie, but plays like a psychological drama.

The ‘Frankenstein’ director’s distinctive style was instrumental to the look and feel of Universal’s classic monster movies. It was a style...

John Travolta’s “Pulp Fiction” follow-up hit theaters 25 years ago this week, suggesting a sharpness his post-“Pulp” career would, sadly,...