A young Steven Spielberg tries to master the art of suspense filmmaking in this highly thrilling telemovie.
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A young Steven Spielberg tries to master the art of suspense filmmaking in this highly thrilling telemovie.
An essential early work of Jarmusch, this is a cinematic hymn to Memphis cityโs rich musical history, filmed as a connecting triptych of oddball characters of various nationalities over the course of one day and night in this โghost townโ.ย
An interesting mess of ideas, genres and styles, Spike Leeโs lengthy new joint is effective when it is polemical, but the main message about how we could draw urgent relevancy from the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement in relation to the painful lessons of the Vietnam War gets muddled in the filmโs excesses.
An excellent lead performance by a child aside, this is too postcard picture-perfect and poorly-paced a film about the torrid experiences of surviving the Khmer Rouge regime to be considered essential viewing.
Fincherโs now-classic โ90s take on the grisly investigative crime movie is engrossing, well-made, and may well chill you to the bone.
Despite the strength of the leading cast, this is an unexpectedly insipid movie by Edward Zwick.
A predictable historical war film about survival and the human spirit that mostly benefits from steady direction by Edward Zwick.
One of Billy Wilder’s greatest films, and a textbook example of how to do a noir so rightโฆ and so good.
Pepe the Frog gets unceremoniously thrown into the US sociopolitical mixer in this insightful documentary about the pervasiveness of memes, perils of Internet culture and one manโsโcreator Matt Furieโangst toward all that is wrong with American society.
A feverish attempt at exploring the nature of wasted youth with strong visual and aural stylings that canโt quite hide its meandering narrative.