Splendidly combining live-animal action with Jim Henson-esque animatronics, Noonan's irresistible "Babe" is a story about flouting convention and realizing one's potential. With its live menagerie of talking ducks, ...

"Feast" is subtle, sensitive and profound. The centerpiece of the film, both visually and thematically, is the magnificent meal that Babette prepares for her austere benefactors after winning a lottery - the ...

Notorious in its time as the filthiest picture ever made, this steamy, depraved black comedy from the poison pen of Tennessee Williams is expertly handled by Kazan, who had the picture shot in crisp, stark ...

Robert Zemeckis put a hip ’80s spin on the old time-travel conundrum about how to avoid negative future outcomes, stuffing his movie with clever plot twists, lots of anachronistic humor, and a sweet love story between ...

In this stark, suspenseful film, tension builds gradually from the opening scene. Director Sturges shoots this virtual ghost town as a panorama of isolation and remoteness, where one man must survive against a mob ...

This potent, complex film features a stunning, gender-bending performance from Garcia Bernal, and an ingenious plot that has us shifting between Ignacio's story as written and real-life. Themes of human and sexual ...

Loosely based on the 1958 Starkweather-Fugate murder spree that left 10 dead in Nebraska, Malick's astonishingly beautiful and accomplished debut marked him as a filmmaker with a unique artistic vision. With Spacek's ...

A farcical twist on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "Ball of Fire" is in a witty, delightful class all its own. And what a lineup: Cooper, Stanwyck, Dana "the Mask" Andrews, Dan Duryea, and assorted others, directed ...

Chukhrai's intimate, small masterpiece contains a wrenching hope for life and humanity in the figure of the innocent, Alyosha, even as he traverses a homeland under siege to see his beloved mother, perhaps for the last ...

Shot on location in the mostly barren, wintry environs of the Mississippi Delta, a place of extreme poverty and frigid beauty, Lance Hammer’s exquisite “Ballast” examines the lives of three lost souls (beautifully ...

Geller and Goldfine's enthralling, transporting portrait of the epoch-defining institution pirouettes with some of dance history's biggest legends, including surviving alumni Yvonne Chouteau, Raven Wilkinson, ...

What is the price of freedom? Carlos Bosch trails a handful of Cuban natives whose quest to leave behind poverty and oppression at home resulted in surprising, not always happy, turns of fate. Some perished of thirst or ...

"Bambi" is an early Disney triumph, showcasing some of the most beautifully detailed animation ever done. The story itself mingles moments of playfulness with high drama to form a timeless masterpiece. Though ...

Allen’s hilariously wise-mouthed shlub tosses off an arsenal of tart one-liners in “Bananas,” a madcap slapstick comedy that pokes fun at Fidel Castro, tabloid TV (Howard Cosell has a starring role, lampooning ...

Like Godard's "Breathless," the exhilarating "Outsiders" is one of the director's most accessible and enjoyable outings from the 1960s. Part buddy film, part crime-gone-wrong drama, it tells the story of three ...

Kapur’s thrilling biopic tells the life story of a woman who endured great hardship under India’s patriarchal society (Devi is repeatedly gang-raped by upper-caste brutes), yet she overcame adversity to become a widely ...

This sad, moving film showcases the emerging brilliance of young De Niro, with the underrated Moriarty also turning in a superb performance. Both baseball fans and devotees of great film alike should readily agree on ...

Juxtaposing scenes of incredible natural beauty with the corrosive detritus of our "civilized" world, this feature employs a technique similar to "Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance," and meets that previous film's high ...

This marvel of Persian minimalism tells a simple story about love, poverty, and goodwill. When Lateef realizes that Rahmat is actually a girl named Baran, he is transformed, and becomes her protector. The lengths he ...

A chilly social critique guised as an elaborate costume drama, Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" is a splendidly realized, visually sumptuous affair. At the height of his fame in the mid '70s, O'Neal portrays Barry with sly ...