‘Zardoz’ may have a reputation as one of the worst films of the ’70s, but John Boorman’s twisty sci-fi demands far more than your memes.
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Overqualified and underrated as ever, “Running Scared” remains an essential, entertaining text about escaping the January doldrums for a little sweet freedom.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s gripping, suspenseful morality play about shipwreck survivors during World War II is just as relevant now as when it was released 80 years ago.
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Unfortunately for all of us, Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War masterpiece has never stopped being timely.
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A trio of ’80s post-apocalyptic exploitation films currently streaming on the Criterion Channel tests the adage about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.
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Norman Jewison’s 1979 courtroom comedy/drama, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, features Al Pacino at his roaring, twitching, sweating best.
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Thirty Sundances ago, the Weinsteins picked up the shared winners of the Dramatic Filmmakers Trophy and launched two contrasting careers.
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A new restoration and Criterion release of John Sayles’s neo-western-noir brings fresh attention to this shockingly-relevant masterpiece.
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Recently name-checked by Emma Stone as an inspiration for “Poor Things,” this Czech New Wave classic deserves a much bigger audience.
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Joseph Losey’s 1963 drama is a good old-fashioned “F*** the Rich” tale.
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Director Don Siegel’s “Dirty Harry” follow-up was 1973’s “Charley Varrick” (now streaming on Netflix), a lean, mean, nasty little heist thriller starring… Walter Matthau?
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A look at the drama, both onscreen and off, of this classic but underseen romantic three-hander from director David Lean.
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