James L. Brooks's quirky, touching film brims with humanity, as three societal misfits find each other and against steep odds, ultimately connect. Nicholson fits oddball Melvin like a defective glove, but it's Oscar ...

Pollak’s captivating feature brims over with authentic humanity and depth of feeling, thanks largely to Nyquist’s pitch-perfect rendering of the central role. His Daniel is no arrogant celebrity, but a man whose storied ...

Hypnotic film by French director Louis Malle deals with themes of decay and regeneration in both character and setting. Lou personifies the past, Sally the future, with Atlantic City itself the transitional present ...

Offering a hard-as-nails depiction of war and the ugly flipside of frontline bravery, Aldrich's "Attack!" revisits the decisive Battle of the Bulge with a realistic tale of mutinous revenge. The always intense Palance ...

Deceptively simple yet cumulatively devastating, this important film will move some to tears, especially in the poignant final act. Bresson's characteristically austere direction and minimal aesthetic (physical gestures ...

Director Malle's masterpiece is a subtly drawn, wrenching tale of childhood innocence lost to the madness of war. Malle expertly evokes this nightmarish period in his country's history, and teases pitch-perfect ...

This disturbing, darkly surreal horror film by Japanese shock meister Miike is not lacking for twisted, troubling images of unfathomable terror or sadomasochistic torture. But Miike pulls it off so cleverly and with ...

Reprising her brassy stage role with Broadway director Da Costa in this splendid screen version of "Auntie Mame," Russell is simply marvelous as the exuberant, amusingly eccentric society woman who coaches her pre-teen ...

Though long, deliberately paced, and almost unremittingly grim, intrepid cinephiles up for the challenge should not miss this tour-de-force from star/writer/director Puiu, who also gave us 2005’s “The Death Of Mr. ...

The first and only time the great Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman worked with master director Ingmar Bergman (no relation), was in this stormy drama. Ingrid reaches a career summit playing Charlotte, in her last ...

Mignogna’s warmly funny, mature love story is distinguished by the presence of Argentine movie stars Aleandro and Luppi, who invest this romantic little charmer with class and intelligence. Wanting to save face with her ...

Director Sarah Polley's "Away From Her" observes with elegiac warmth and delicacy the emotional turbulence visited upon a couple in their silver years by the onset of Alzheimer's. In her directorial debut, Polley (best ...