Adapted from Truman Capote's novella, Edwards's fleet-footed romantic comedy would not be the cultural touchstone it is without the effervescent presence of Hepburn. As Holly Golightly, a small-town Texas girl with her ...

Peter Yates's heartfelt, life-affirming movie will prove a winner for older kids and adults. Christopher is appealingly quirky in the central role and the film also showcases the budding talents of future stars Quaid ...

Von Trier's disturbing, fiercely unconventional "Waves" features the magnificent British actress Emily Watson in a daringly masochistic role no Hollywood starlet would have touched. With her fearless incarnation of the ...

One of the more fascinating and important works in cinema, and a great, loving tribute to American film noir, Godard's "Breathless" epitomized the French New Wave with a minimal yet innovative tale of doomed love. The ...

Based on Gale Sayers's autobiography, this indelible made-for-TV movie tells the true story of a friendship born through football that ends tragically. Coming off his success in "The Godfather," Caan is terrific as the ...

With a tough-talking teenage argot harkening back to the hard-boiled noir movies of the forties, and a cast of high-school-age characters with names like Dode, Tugger, and The Brain, Johnson's ingenious murder-mystery ...

Though its comic set pieces are anything but subtle, “Bridesmaids” is still screamingly funny- but to its credit, the movie also offers an honest, unsentimental look at female relationships and one woman’s ...

This subtle, heartfelt British gem will still drench most anyone's Kleenex nearly seven decades after its release. Performances by Howard and Johnson are impeccable; she was rightly Oscar-nominated for her restrained, ...

Chaste but dizzyingly romantic, Jane Campion’s brilliant “Bright Star” reimagines the famous real-life love affair between Keats, the great Romantic poet who died from tuberculosis at age 25, unknown and penniless, and ...

Howard Hawks's quintessential screwball outing remains one of our most riotous and inspired screen comedies. Grant and Hepburn (who'd do "Holiday" later the same year and "The Philadelphia Story" two years later) are in ...

Nominated for seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, and Director), this smart, cynical entry functions as both a prescient critique of the American news media and a refreshingly ...

Long underappreciated even by Allen fans, "Rose" is a nostalgic, sweetly kooky comedy that weds borscht-belt humor and mafia hijinks. Like most of his caricatures, Allen's inept Danny Rose is a hoot to watch, but the ...

Anyone passionate about Broadway, entertainment lore, or old New York will happily tuck into this nostalgic chatter fest featuring such luminaries as Shirley MacClaine, Bea Arthur, Kaye Ballard, Hume Cronyn, Robert ...

Based on the Annie Proulx short story, Ang Lee's Oscar-winning "Brokeback" is an affecting, beautifully photographed story about a taboo-busting subject for a major Hollywood production: the love between two ...

With its progressive message of tolerance and a heartfelt performance by perennial do-gooder Stewart, Daves's Technicolor Western is a key entry in the genre. "Arrow" not only advances the notion that the Apache got a ...

Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces,” an elaborately structured roundelay of flashbacks and proliferating storylines, is a heady romantic melodrama that’s as much about the dark magic of moviemaking as it is passion and ...

Balabanov draws a bead on the New Russia in this grimy urban thriller about a haughty ex-soldier who seems preternaturally gifted for a life of violent crime. Danila, coolly played by the cherub-faced Bodrov, is a ...

Dealing with a raft of troubling issues like poverty, mercy killing, and rural prejudice, Berlinger and Sinofsky's insightful, award-winning feature probes the meaning of justice by anatomizing the facts in a small-town ...

Inspiration for the 2009 film of the same name that starred Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire, this Danish chamber piece is a more mature and naturalistic sibling to its Hollywood remake. A movie about ...

Made just prior to "Naked City", Dassin's gritty prison melodrama puts a twist on the archetypal bust-out scheme by revisiting, in flashback, the pre-penitentiary lives of Collins - ably played by an intense young ...