Two years after "The Graduate," Hoffmann transformed himself into an ailing derelict in director Schlesinger's dark, intense "Midnight Cowboy." A story of friendship born of desperation in Manhattan's grimy underbelly, ...

"Run" achieves ideal balance between comedy and action, creating pure, adrenalized entertainment. DeNiro and Grodin project surprisingly strong chemistry as polar opposites thrown together by fate. Their inspired ...

Directed with confidence by Elaine May, this gritty, pared-to-the bone crime drama about a penny ante Mafia associate who's on the run after embezzling a cache of money from the mob has a freewheeling, improvisational ...

Here Curtiz the master creates a diabolical murder yarn. Crawford resuscitated her fading career with the driven Mildred, a part she was born to play. The Oscar- nominated Blyth grates as the hateful Veda (hard for her ...

Gus Van Sant’s triumphant biopic on the slain gay activist Harvey Milk captures the charisma, humor, and passionate humanism of this groundbreaking politician, whose legacy is timelier than ever in the wake of recent ...

A sharp, innovative send-up of everything from "The Public Enemy" to "The Godfather," Joel and Ethan Coen's brilliant "Crossing" has enough surprising twists, gnarled plotlines, and double crosses to fill several noir ...

Quirky, ingenious and altogether charming fantasy/comedy from director Danny Boyle combines warmth, humor and suspense, as predictably, the previous owners of the ill-begotten cash become vitally interested in its ...

Despite our knowing the outcome, "Miracle" keeps us riveted right up to the final buzzer, revisiting a glorious moment in the storied history of the Olympics without resorting to all the familiar underdog-team clichés. ...

Was there ever a better big-screen Santa than Oscar winner Edmund Gwenn? This timeless Christmas fable about an elderly retiree who sets New York a-twitter with his claim to be the sleigh-riding patron saint of the ...

Ritovski's devastating study of a downtrodden youth in contemporary Macedonia offers no comfort for those seeking tidy endings and late-arriving omens of joy. Still, "Mirage" is powerful and riveting on its ...

Director Holst gracefully orchestrates this unusual father-son drama, tracing the conflict between a boy’s desire for paternal guidance and affection, and the reality of the deeply flawed man (a lackey of the Albanian ...

This unusually vibrant biopic by “Taxi Driver” writer Schrader is told in episodic fashion, tracing Mishima’s eventful life from childhood to his violent, self-inflicted death in protest. Also woven into the narrative ...

Ingmar Bergman may be the king of Swedish cinema, but he borrowed much of his shimmering visual style from mentor Alf Sjoberg, whose elegant, innovative adaptation of August Strindberg’s caustic play ranks among his ...

Don’t miss this fascinating, one-of-a-kind film experiment (available for the first time), where Soviet authorities authorized Barnet to portray the West as they saw it, in the process utilizing the elements that made ...

Director Costa-Gavras's first American made film is a stunning political thriller, elevated not only by the ring of truth but a shattering Oscar-nominated performance by Lemmon. His Ed Horman is an imperfect father but ...

Though detractors claim the movie inaccurately depicts a white FBI coming in to rescue helpless blacks, in fact the film features some extremely courageous black characters, and at the outset, the FBI seems more muddled ...

Returning to the big screen after an eight-year absence, Fonda successfully recreated his long-running stage role under the superb direction of Mervyn LeRoy, who replaced John Ford when Ford and Fonda literally came to ...

Though originally planned as Chaplin’s first sound film, the legendary actor/director ultimately decided to make a silent film with sound instead. Hence, the film features the ingenious use of sound effects at strategic ...

France's answer to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, comic genius Jacques Tati leads us on an uproarious trek through the futuristic 1950s in "Mon Oncle," his first color feature. With hardly any dialogue, Tati ...

Jutra’s tender, bittersweet coming-of-age tale “Antoine” deals with familiar themes (awakenings, hard lessons, sexual initiation) but circles around the darkness surrounding Benoit’s seemingly happy-go-lucky uncle, ...