A sweet, endearing movie about faith and the need for optimism, perfectly suited to Stewart's special comic gifts. Josephine Hull, who reprised her part from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, won a well-deserved ...

Tatou, the kewpie-doll-cute star of “Amelie,” is perfectly cast in Colombani’s clever black comedy as an abundantly talented young painter whose lover adores her. But does he? To say more would reveal too much of ...

The semi-documentary approach Director Mann pioneered within film noir, seen in both "T-Men" and "Naked City," was realized most effectively in this picture, which methodically follows a manhunt for a cop-killer. The ...

This poignant love story was the first film to be produced under the newly formed MGM banner and the first one to feature Leo the lion in the opening logo. Chaney is heartbreaking as the sad clown, affecting a ...

An ideal companion piece to Errol Morris's recent "The Fog of War," Davis's shattering, controversial film intercuts newsreel footage of the war's horrific impact with the ill-informed or misleading comments of its ...

It's hard to know what's more compelling: Sheen's psychic meltdown, Brando's mumbling miscues and diva-like behavior, or Coppola's certainty that he's making a terrible movie. Things get off to a poor start from the ...

Michael Mann's long, graphic, pounding crime story features performances every bit as explosive as the virtually non-stop action. De Niro and Pacino both soar, particularly in their first on-screen encounter in a diner. ...

A deft, subtly brilliant romantic comedy by the great Lubitsch, "Heaven" examines a privileged man whose boyish love of courtship colors his devotion to his wife, making his life "one continuous misdemeanor." Penned by ...

This moving depiction of unlikely romance blossoming under perilous conditions is a tour-de-force for its actors and director, with Kerr and Huston deservedly getting Oscar nods. Mitchum subtly conveys the gentleness ...

An unsettling, thoroughly absorbing drama based on a real-life crime, "Creatures" is the magnificent brainchild of then-horror-movie director Jackson ("Lord of the Rings"), who brings sensitivity and sincere human ...

John Cameron Mitchell directs and stars in this audaciously fun adaptation of his own gender-bending Off Broadway musical, creating a kind of 21st-century answer to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Stephen Trask's fiery ...

This touching, powerful documentary re-opens old wounds that have yet to heal, a fifty year old espionage case that still defies reason. An innocent grand-child wants to understand what really happened, and though she ...

Nominated for best documentary at the Oscars, “Hell” is an affecting, up-close look at one soldier’s experience in war, and the steep price paid afterward, including physical rehab and debilitating pills to dull the ...

See this film for the bang-up aerial sequences, especially the breath-stealing dogfight (one plane is flown by Hughes himself!), and a justifiably famous sequence involving a zeppelin attack over London, truly a "high" ...

This fabulously goofy, intermittently brilliant romp features some of the finest pop music you'll ever hear. Richard Lester's "Help!" was the director's second (and first color) collaboration with the world-famous ...

A truly engrossing, disturbing made-for-TV movie based on Bugliosi's bestseller, Tom Gries's "Helter Skelter" revisits all the hair-raising details of the infamous case, including how Manson engineered the killings, ...

With this exceptional adaptation of Shakespeare's finest historical play, English upstart Kenneth Branagh proved himself worthy of the heights set by Sir Laurence Olivier, whose own 1944 production still shines. Branagh ...

Olivier inhabits the role of Henry with dazzling gusto in this rousing, energetic adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. The world was at war in 1944, and the gifted actor/director hoped the Bard's climactic tale of ...

"Mrs. Brown" beautifully recounts one of the most unconventional, unlikely romances in history. The close and affectionate friendship that grows between Victoria and lower-class Highlander Brown scandalized Britain ...

With plum roles in films by some of France’s leading lights (Intimate Strangers, Secret Defense), Bonnaire is better known as a marquee star. Here, she assumes the more delicate role of director, advocate, and (in real ...