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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max. more »
Ghostlight
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life. more »
The Bikeriders
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club. more »
The File on Thelma Jordan
Barbara Stanwyck slips back into femme-fatale mode and hurtles into an affair with a married district attorney played by Wendell Corey. When her rich aunt turns up murdered and she’s the prime suspect, Corey’s character faces destroying his own life to save hers. This extra-twisty gem isn’t as well-known as Robert Siodmak’s more more »
A Quiet Place: Day One
Experience the day the world went quiet. more »
Kinds of Kindness
A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning, and a woman searches for an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide. more »
Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis
Images and themes from Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis have been popping up in anime for so long that an animated adaptation of Katsushira Otomo’s manga based on the story was inevitable. In a futuristic city, the ruler creates an AI-powered robot girl to further his infernal ends, but a plucky hero may have something to say about more »
Lonely Are The Brave
Lonesome cowpoke Kirk Douglas feels the mid-20th century closing in on his range-roaming ways in this elegiac classic. After busting out of jail, he clambers up New Mexico’s Sandia Mountains on horseback in a desperate bid to stay free. Journeyman director David Miller fuses mythic struggle and epic scope with real grit and huma more »
Barbarella
The Swinging ‘60s zoomed into outer space in Roger Vadim’s outré cult fave. Jane Fonda has spent the rest of her career living down her turn in the title role, a galactic ingénue/sexpot who must save the universe in a series of skimpy plastic outfits. The loony production design — a fur-lined spaceship? — fails to overpower an e more »
Suddenly, Last Summer
Montgomery Clift hangs on for dear life as Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor vie to out-nutty each other in Joseph L Mankiewicz’s camp-tastic Tennessee Williams adaptation. The story involves mental illness, an incestuous obsession, literal slumming, and one of the most outrageous denouements in cinema, but you’re not reall more »
Fly Me to the Moon
Marketing maven Kelly Jones wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis's already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, Jones is directed to stage a fake moon landing as back-up. more »
Point Break
Suspend your disbelief and catch a gnarly ride with Patrick Swayze’s crew of surfing bank robbers and Keanu Reeves’ jock turned federal agent. Kathryn Bigelow burst out of the cult-hit zone with this handsome-but-dim California crime flick, and her command of screen action (especially a pounding foot chase) elevates the himbo hi more »
La Collectionneuse
Éric Rohmer covered all the seasons in his oeuvre, but he seemed to have a special affinity for the underdressed liminal space of summer vacation. Patrick Bachau’s insufferable art bro winds up sharing a borrowed villa by the ocean with a frequently bikini-ed young woman (Haydée Politoff) who remains indifferent to him, thereby more »
Humanoids From The Deep
Jaws meets Alien meets a 1950s nature-run-amok creature feature in this drive-in corker produced by the late, great Roger Corman. Mutant sea creatures terrorize a fishing village in order to propagate their species via trysts with the local nubiles. During postproduction, Corman reportedly cut nuance and added more blood, boobs, more »
National Anthem
A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream. more »
Shoeshine
Shoeshine boys were the squeegee kids of postwar Italy — hustling to make a coin and a bit too underfoot for some. Vittoria De Sica’s early neorealist triumph follows two urchins (Franco Interlenghi and Rinaldo Smordoni, both terrific) from the street into Italy’s juvenile-justice system, which tears them apart. It’s shocking ho more »
The People’s Joker
Just your average candy-colored, half-animated trans coming-of-age story as filtered through the prism of the DC Universe with bonus critique of the professional comedy-industrial complex. Writer/director/star Vera Drew whips up a smart and frothy debut comedy that’s as smart and creative as it is fun and heartfelt. See it befor more »
Le Samouraï
Clad in his now-iconic fedora and trenchcoat, Alain Delon’s sangfroid assassin attempts to elude both the police and his disgruntled clients after his latest murder-for-hire. Part underworld procedural, part existential hang, Jean-Pierre Melville’s elegant neo-noir codified a certain category of cinema cool, with an assist from more »
Multiple Maniacs
John Waters made films that prodded the funny bone and gag reflex more than his second feature, but there’s an anarchic, unhinged energy here that outstrips everything else in his cinema. Divine and the rest of the Dreamlanders kill, steal, commit sacrilege, kill again, cannibalize, and kill some more in lurid black and white. more »
Seven Samurai
“Epic” is overused, but it’s hard to get around it here. Akira Kurosawa drew the blueprint for action cinema with his vastly influential tale of hastily recruited ronin defending a village full of farmers from marauding bandits. Along the way, he limns indelible character moments not only for the stoic warriors but for the haple more »
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
A nasty piece of work. Susan George and Peter Fonda star as the title lowlife dimbulbs, whose kidnap-for-ransom scheme leads to reel after reel of vintage Detroit muscle speeding down rural backroads, totaling cop cars, and ducking helicopters. For some reason, every major character in this drive-in exemplar se more »
Winchester ’73
James Stewart rebooted his career and nice-guy image with the first of eight oaters he made with Anthony Mann, justly admired for their tortured psychology (at least by 1950s standards). The title firearm, won by and stolen from Stewart’s deadeye, links together a panoply of characters as it passes from hand to hand. A nearly pe more »
Black Tight Killers
It’s as if this restored gem was concocted in a lab to delight 21st-century kitsch hounds. A playboy war photographer gets mixed up with underworld shenanigans that involve a squad of perky but deadly women operatives in matching mod outfits. Got a pedestrian people-talking-in-a-car shot? Why not make the street-scene behind the more »
Classe Tous Risques
Knuckle-faced Lino Ventura plays a hood on the run trying to make his way from Milan back to Paris with his family without getting pinched. Heists, police ambushes, and old-pals-turned-frenemies complicate matters. Shoved aside by the French New Wave, Claude Sautet’s headlong crime flick still lacks the cult it deserves, but we more »
Between the Temples
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. more »
Reservoir Dogs
Is this still Quentin Tarantino’s best film? There’s something to be said for the relative leanness of his tricksy tale of the fallout from a heist gone wrong, not to mention its lack of pretensions to genius and spectacle. It even has noir veteran Laurence Tierney giving it two-fisted bonafides. Drink every time the characters more »
The Small Back Room
Powell and Pressburger regular David Farrar plays a WWII bomb expert in constant pain from an amputated leg who self-medicates with booze. Can he solve the mystery of the Nazi booby trap killing his fellow Englishmen? Can he save his relationship with his long-suffering girl (fellow P&P regular Kathleen Byron)? Can he preserve h more »
The Evil Dead
Alongside the budding slashers of the early ‘80s arose a film that shamed them with its gushing creativity and unruly wit. Sam Raimi was all of 20 when he took the college-kids-on-a-trip horror trope and flooded it with giddy energy and fake bodily fluids, inaugurating a franchise and a career that have more than delivered on th more »
The War of the Worlds
Martians have invaded Earth, and there’s absolutely no way to stop them. That’s the complete plotline of this vintage sci-fi classic, which is both more gorgeous and way more of a downer than you probably remember. Its effects may not measure up to raised-on-CGI standards, but the imagination behind its design still captivates. more »
Starman
John Carpenter responded to the box-office failure of his 1982 masterpiece The Thing in part by making its precise opposite. Here, Jeff Bridges’ extraterrestrial is a benign tourist who grows on (not in) Karen Allen’s earthling widow by taking on the form of her dead husband. Carpenter shot his oddball sci-fi romance on location more »
The Searchers
As American as racism and violence. John Ford’s national landmark includes all the silly side quests endemic to a studio film of the era, including a song and a romantic subplot. But the monomaniacal focus of John Wayne’s damaged avenger as he tracks down his kidnapped niece lends it a terrible power. And if you’re looking for a more »
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders’ camera dwells on the deserted contours of the American Southwest for most of the first hour, but the landscape that stays with you is that of Harry Dean Stanton’s face. Watching his haunted wanderer slowly come back to life, reconnect with people, and confront what set him adrift in the first place constitutes one o more »
The Lavender Hill Mob
The late Alec Guinness has been retconned into a kindly screen eminence thanks to his Star Wars canonization as Old Ben Kenobi, but he was a wily actor full of dark currents. Exhibit A: this Ealing Studios heist comedy, which benefits enormously from his ability to telegraph complex motives from behind a milquetoast expression a more »
Office Space
Flair. TPS reports. The red Swingline stapler. Mike Judge’s takeout on work in general, and the cube-farm culture of white-collar labor in particular, was so dead-on and scathing that it provided a whole new set of terms and concepts to mock and undermine them. Since it was famously a failure at the box office and only became be more »
Within Our Gates
Oscar Micheaux’s landmark debut is no mere curio of cinema history. The oldest surviving feature film by a Black director jumps back and forth over the Mason-Dixon line as our heroine (Evelyn Preer) works to uplift the race and faces love and family troubles of her own. Micheaux captures many startling moments of century-old hum more »
Scanners
David Cronenberg’s breakout leveled-up artistically as well as at the box office. Despite an inert lead performance from Stephen Lack, Scanners depicts a reality full of weaponized psychics at war but also disturbingly recognizable corporate conspiracies and house-of-mirrors paranoia. While the director’s work is best known for more »
The Fabulous Four
It tells the story of two friends who travel to be bridesmaids in a surprise wedding of their college girlfriend. more »
