This probing, provocative exploration of the human suffering caused by three tragic murders makes an important contribution to the death penalty discussion. Watching Perry’s open, affable demeanor, it’s hard to imagine ...

This Academy Award-winning doc is an often heart-wrenching, but ultimately uplifting, experience. The intimate testimonials Harris coaxes out his subjects reveal complex feelings of guilt and confusion, regret and ...

Adapting Jon Krakauer's fact-based, bestselling book for the big screen, Sean Penn wowed audiences with this Oscar-nominated tale of a young man who turns his back on his family and future in pursuit of an idealized ...

Stung by accusations of racism after the debut of his "Birth of a Nation," Griffith decided to assuage his detractors and at the same time top his previous masterpiece with this lavish meditation on cruelty and ...

My personal sci-fi favorite from the fifties, this enduring cult favorite is an ingenious nightmare vision that reflects the paranoia of the time created by McCarthyism. Absent of the effects that characterize more ...

Knowing a good story when he hears one, director Caccoyanis keeps his lush, striking film faithful to Euripedes’ drama, using the moving poetry of the original text to convey ageless truths about human relationships, ...

Greenwald (“Outfoxed,” “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price”) is a specialist when it comes to agit-prop documentary filmmaking, but his claims that unchecked avarice and gross incompetence are the defining traits of ...

Overshadowed by the more successful "The High and the Mighty," released a year later, "Sky" is in many ways a superior adventure film produced by the same creative team-Wellman, Wayne, and writer Ernest K. Gann. A story ...

Based on H. G. Wells’s novel “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, this daring pre-code entry, dripping with sadism and sexual obsession, still has the power to chill. Particularly striking is the groundbreaking use of makeup, ...

Frank Capra's sublime romantic comedy swept the 1934 Oscars, and it's still easy to understand why. Few eighty year old movies hold up as well as this one. Colbert makes a charming, deft comedienne (check out that ...

Rock ‘n’ rollers, rejoice! Academy Award-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim’s follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth is a penetrating documentary of ideas, featuring killer musical performances. Importantly, it places this ...

The quintessential Frank Capra film and a heartwarming holiday treat year in and year out, "Life" is the ultimate optimistic statement on the value of love, life, and community. Capra's masterful handling of the ...

Part of the Dogme 95 movement that catapulted Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterburg to international stardom, Lone Scherfig turns in a farce that lands far from the weighty entries of her contemporaries. “Italian For ...

This austere portrait of war and ravaged innocence marked the film debut of Andrei Tarkovsky, later renowned for such masterworks as “The Sacrifice” and “Solaris.” The moral and emotional core of the story centers, of ...