After solidifying his reputation as Hollywood's number-one bad guy, Cagney played a straight-edge lawman in this gangland drama, a huge hit for Warner Brothers and great publicity for J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling ...

A brilliant, deeply moving re-staging of the World War I invasion and battle of Gallipoli by Australian-New Zealand troops, a young Mel Gibson stands out in a superb Australian cast, and director Weir expertly evokes ...

The multiple-Oscar-winning "Gandhi" explores the life and principles of an extraordinary man who became an enduring example of holiness, humility, and humane resistance. Ben Kingsley inhabits his role with saintly ...

This lavish, eerie remake of the 1940 British psychological thriller is fully worthy of its distinguished predecessor, thanks to the wily interventions of MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who oversaw the production. Bergman is ...

Brutal and unabashedly lusty, Suzuki's "Gate of Flesh" is unlike other B-movie cult classics with its self-consciously flashy editing and nightmarish artistic design. Disciplined by their sadistic leader, Komasa Sen ...

The Belic brothers landed on a crowd-pleasing premise when they decided to document Pena’s joyous journey to upper Mongolia in 1993. Pena’s played with the likes of B.B. King and Bonnie Raitt, but his love affair with ...

Filmmakers Hozer and Raymont delve into the little known private life of this celebrated figure with considerable rigor and empathy. To its credit, the film does not attempt to draw definitive conclusions about the ...

Walsh's splendidly robust biopic of Corbett, the first fighter to win the world heavyweight title under the more refined Marquis of Queensberry rules he helped draft (i.e. no biting, kicking, or clawing), is one of ...

A risky venture for Fox producer Daryl F. Zanuck, whose decision to fund an issue film about the unspoken scourge of bigotry against Jews could easily have backfired in a country that still hadn’t adopted meaningful ...

We all know the story of the Beatles, but here director Scorsese recounts their rise through the prism of guitarist Harrison’s own experience. The first half of this extensive work reveals new facets of the Fab Four’s ...

Soulful, eccentric, and utterly transfixing, Green’s feature-film debut is one of the most original American independent films I’ve seen in a long time. Taking a page from the playbook of his mentor Terrence Malick ...

Distinctive black comedy has Georgy, a free spirit with a self-image problem, surrounded by somewhat pathetic, bizarre characters: Meredith's beauty can't conceal the soul of a witch; Jos is a loveable, overgrown child; ...

Filmed amid the spectral ruins of Berlin in 1947, and cast with actual residents of the rubble-strewn capital city, Rossellini's harrowing portrait of war's catastrophic impact on everyday people is a haunting classic ...

René Clément, known mostly for his classic loss-of-innocence Oscar-winner “Forbidden Games” and “Purple Noon”, should also be remembered for this devastating film, which still packs a wallop. His depiction of life at ...

Hodges's bleak, slow-burning revenge thriller features Caine in one of his chilliest roles, playing a slimy, working-class London enforcer whose morals are as twisted as the people he seeks to destroy. "Angry young man" ...

Depardieu and Dewaere, the marauding duo from Blier’s “Going Places,” reunite for this satirical French comedy of manners, this time taking a wide turn into the absurd. Both Raoul and Stephane are comically earnest in ...

Barry Sonnenfeld gets the credit for helming the best screen adaptation of any Elmore Leonard work to-date. Scott Frank's Golden Globe nominated script vividly brings to life the author's hysterically low-life ...

An inspired take on adolescent alienation and angst, Zwigoff's "Ghost World" - adapted from the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes - is a clever and quirky character piece. The three leads are great, but Ileanna Douglas ...

Based on Edna Ferber's best-seller, Stevens's vibrant, sprawling epic about a rivalry that spans decades is every bit as grandiose, melodramatic, and visually arresting as it was half a century ago. In his final ...

An acid satire on Japan's bustling, postwar business ethic, where ruthless Western-style capitalism meets traditional notions of collective duty, "Giants and Toys" is both humorous and harrowing thanks to Masumura's ...