The Maysles Brothers’ documentary about a pair of eccentric patrician recluses is not just a spectacle of decay, but a portrait of captivating, irrepressible vitality.
Read more
Beneath the pitch-black comedy that audiences rejected it for, Lawrence Kasdan’s 1990 farce is a heartwarming, true story about how love is stronger than bullets, car bombs, and attempted murder convictions.
Read more
Twenty years after its release, and with a new stage version playing on Broadway, we look back at William Friedkin and Tracy Letts’s berserk and prophetic horror romance.
Read more
The 1999 teen rom-com is widely beloved these days — but it’s tonally inexplicable and morally reprehensible, so of course it came from Harvey Weinstein.
Read more
The best-loved of director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s three collaborations with novelist Kobe Abe presents a battle of the sexes of primordial proportions.
Read more
The 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam devoted one of its retrospectives to Japanese direct-to-video genre movies.
Read more
Gregory La Cava’s 1936 hit is the quintessential screwball comedy, a rapid-fire, ceaselessly funny exploration of sex, class, and chaos.
Read more
Though Martin Scorsese was no neophyte in 1976, his dark masterpiece started a string of classics that people choose to misunderstand.
Read more
Unfairly swept aside by the French New Wave, director Claude Autant-Lara’s classic is a beautiful bauble.
Read more
This month’s examination of the cinematic misdeeds of Miramax spotlights Kevin Williamson’s directorial debut, a would-be black comedy softened and spoiled by the brothers Weinstein.
Read more
The notorious Beatles cover boondoggle is currently, inexplicably streaming on Netflix. You may be tempted to see how bad it could be. Resist that temptation.
Read more
With a new Mel Brooks documentary on HBO Max, we take a look at his most controversial comedy.
Read more