Classics

Twelve men in a hot room, one table, one case, one vote that has to be unanimous. On paper, 12 […]

There is a particular problem with reviewing Casablanca, which is that nearly everyone arrives already knowing the lines. “Here’s looking

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.

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