Tilda Swinton’s breakthrough performance as the androgynous Orlando is reason enough to see this daringly original film. This gender-bending role launched the career of one of our most unique acting talents with a bang. ...

An astonishing debut from director Barmak, and the first film to be made in post-Taliban Afghanistan, "Osama" paints a horrific portrait of daily life under the oppressive fundamentalist regime, where women are ...

In 1943, still under the nose of fascist censors, the great Visconti directed this sizzling, unauthorized adaptation of James Cain's novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice," which would finally get made in ...

Shakespeare’s oft-staged tragedy about jealousy and murder gets the royal treatment from London’s National Theatre troupe, but the center of fascination in this riveting adaptation is the inimitable, Oscar-nominated ...

Keaton pioneered the frenetic, fast-paced brand of physical comedy that Woody Allen, among others, later improvised upon, and turned it into a crazed art form. "Hospitality," for instance, is an inspired goof on genteel ...

Mining the risqué wit and edgy, intricate plotting of Elmore Leonard's novel, this cool, stylish crime-caper romance by the director of "sex, lies, and videotape" is designed solely for one purpose: to entertain. ...

Replete with expressionistic lighting, ominous atmosphere, cynical dialogue, and a sizzling femme fatale, Jacques Tourneur's "Out of the Past" is quintessential film noir. In a star-making performance, Mitchum cemented ...

Australian media titan Rupert Murdoch has a chokehold on news and information through his vast holdings, but as “Outfoxed” makes clear, his influence is felt mostly through Fox News, where arrogant ogre O’Reilly raves ...

Influenced by the real-life journals of young soldiers as well as Robert Capa’s war photography, Stuart Cooper’s hypnotic WWII film brilliantly weaves archival footage from the Imperial War Museum with scripted scenes ...