De Niroโs most wicked performance for a Scorsese picture, this is an incisively comical take on what happens when the determination to succeed in showbiz is taken to the extreme.
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De Niroโs most wicked performance for a Scorsese picture, this is an incisively comical take on what happens when the determination to succeed in showbiz is taken to the extreme.
Brilliant performances by Michael Douglas and Matt Damon drive this lavishly-produced biopic on the famed pianist-entertainer Liberace.
Scorseseโs scathing work about the exploitation of the Osage tribe in the 1920s by conniving White men is both intimate and expansive at the same time, and so well-paced that it makes 3ยฝ hours feel like only two.
Violent, intense, darkly comic and a tour de force experience, this is God-tier Scorsese and one of the greatest films about gangsters and organised crime ever made.
Tedious at times with an overbearing anti-Americanism, this was an experimental misstep by Antonioni who seemed to want to say a lot but achieved little in the process.
A confident debut feature as this poignant drama about two Korean childhood sweethearts who meet again as adults in New York will likely work the tearducts.
A more wistful film than usual by Anderson, who is back in fine form as we enter the world of a fictional play populated by a range of eccentric characters.
Mankiewiczโs enduring classic about the glamour of showbiz, warts and all, marked by loyal friendships and diabolical schemes, remains one of the wittiest and spriteliest of Classical Hollywood dramas.
Thereโs 1960s nostalgia overload in Linklaterโs third animated feature, which is a mostly engaging take on the cultural phenomena surrounding the 1969 Moon landing, told through one boyโs fantasy of becoming an astronaut.
Itโs hard to find a debut feature this dreamy and evocative, as Dash lends historical voice to her peopleโthe generations of Gullahs who lived on the South Carolina Sea Islands as they endured slavery and faced a modernising 20th century.