Wong's lush romantic melodrama is an achingly gorgeous homage to unrequited love. Though Chow and Chan are drawn to each other, personal morals and social propriety prevent them from acting on their attraction-a tension ...

Jim Sheridan's searing political docudrama is a worthy modern successor to Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out". Day-Lewis and Postlethwaite give gut-wrenching turns as the angry son and his bewildered father, and Thompson lends ...

As director/writer Yu unfolds this astonishing true story, we are mesmerized, not only by the singular way this man lived, but by the divine, child-like purity of his gift, as over a lifetime he practiced his art for ...

Considering how many of us fantasized about being an astronaut as kids, it’s hard not to be delighted and astounded by this in-depth look at the men who actually lived the dream of space exploration. “Shadow” exposes ...

One of our finest anti-war films and spookily prescient today, "Year" captures the "arrogance of power" our top national leaders projected in the '60s, with the windy Hubert Humphrey exclaiming "it is hard to win the ...

This gloriously over-the-top, compulsively watchable soaper was Huston’s follow-up to his smash hit debut, “The Maltese Falcon”. Though both the setting and genre of this film differ from its predecessor, both share the ...

With Britain in the pit of the Second War, playwright Coward was desperate to do a morale-boosting film, and "Serve" was the inspired result. The normally effete Coward is appropriately "stiff upper lip" as Kinross, and ...

The heartbreaking revelation at the conclusion of this mesmerizing thriller will haunt you long after the final credits roll. Set against a backdrop of brutal in-fighting in an unnamed country (probably Lebanon) during ...

What Director Stanley Donen uses excellently here are two gorgeous, sophisticated stars that fit like a glove. He also creates a deliciously elegant atmosphere with colorful, chic sets, scenic London locales, and ...

Remade by Martin Scorsese as "The Departed," Lau and Mak's superior "Affairs" is the kind of clever, suspenseful, genre-twisting epic Hong Kong cinema has been famous for in recent years. The directors examine the ...

Kramer's spellbinding film features a deft performance by Tracy as the rumpled, deceptively plain-spoken Drummond (modeled on Clarence Darrow), matched by March's larger than life, virtuoso turn as Matthew Brady (based ...

Shot on high-definition video, Lynch's twisted, disturbing, often puzzling Hollywood fable immerses us in the same bizarre nightmare world as his previous provocation, "Mulholland Drive." But it's Dern, with her plain ...

This sweet, tender December/December romance executes its tricky premise with finesse and feeling, thanks to sensitive handling by director Paul Cox. Most poignant is the juxtaposition of the revived romance with images ...

A stirring, child’s-eye glimpse of the war in El Salvador that claimed thousands of too-young lives during the Reagan era, Mandoki’s poignant story of a frail innocent caught in the crossfire still speaks to us ...

Winner of the Best Documentary Academy Award, Ferguson’s razor-sharp, cleanly-argued, compulsively watchable documentary is a virtuoso piece of nonfiction filmmaking, and must-viewing for anyone wanting to better ...

An intriguing, top-notch reworking of a Norwegian psychological thriller by "Memento" director Christopher Nolan, "Insomnia" gets a lot of mileage out of its picturesque Alaskan setting, since constant ...

This short (just 70 minutes), tender romance retains a special purity. Bergman, who played the same role in a Swedish version, is breathtaking, while Howard exudes the old world charm of a classic British gentleman. ...

"Intermission" is a colorful, gritty mosaic of intersecting lives in Dublin, populated by parted lovers, petty thieves, and macho policemen. Director Crowley overlays all the silly, sordid goings-on with a palpable ...

An ingenious French treat with psychological underpinnings, director Leconte's "Intimate Strangers" is a meditation on the randomness of life and fate. Though the conceit may sound a bit contrived, Leconte ...

Whether tending the grounds, feeding the cats, or barbering each other after morning prayers, the Carthusians live a life of beautiful simplicity and austerity, untouched by the cares and demands of the outside world. ...