Classics

Woody Allen’s Annie Hall is frequently credited with reinventing the romantic comedy, and the credit is deserved, but it is […]

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is usually discussed as a landmark of production design, and the reputation is deserved, but treating

Richard Linklater pitched Dazed and Confused as an American Graffiti for the 1970s, and the comparison is useful mainly for

Strip The Breakfast Club down to its logline and it sounds like a stage exercise: five teenagers, one room, one

The Shawshank Redemption is the rare film whose commercial failure and eventual canonization tell you something true about how audiences

The strange fact about The Wizard of Oz is that almost nobody remembers it as a movie about being afraid.

There is no way to write about Patton without starting where the film starts, in front of the flag. A

John Huston spent decades trying to make The Man Who Would Be King, and the version he finally got is

Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book about the test pilots and the first American astronauts is one of the

Few prestige pictures have taken as much abuse for winning as The English Patient. Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s