Screenplay: 4.6 Stars Claudette Colbert’s spoiled heiress and Clark Gable’s opportunistic reporter hit the road and bicker their way toward a happily-ever-after ending, class barriers be damned. An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. A passion project that got clobbered by audiences and critics alike, Writer-director Julie Dash should have become an Ava DuVernay–level success after her poetic feature debut, an achievement of otherworldly beauty. Love the mag? Actors: 4.8 Stars If the movie were any more hard-boiled, you’d crack your teeth on it.—Exploding drummers, amps that go to 11, tiny Stonehenges, “Dobly”: This spoof rock documentary—rockumentary, if you must—is monumentally influential on cinema, cringe comedy and, possibly, the music industry itself. A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world. In WWI Africa, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.Actors: 4.7 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars
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There’s a reason why superhero movies are taken so seriously nowadays—even by the Oscars—and this is basically it.—Charlie Chaplin’s total vision remains awe-inspiring: He wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in his own movies, which he also scored with an orchestra. Direction: 5 Stars A young couple trying for a baby move into a fancy apartment surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
Try another? ***** The movie takes us back to the 1930s during the legendary crime spree of lovers Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty), careening around Depression-era America and robbing it blind. In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Actors: 4.9 Stars
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Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems. … A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.Actors: 5 Stars It also made Marcello Mastroianni a star; here, he plays a gossip journalist caught up in the frenzied, freewheeling world of Roman nightlife.
Screenplay: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.7 Stars Part psychoanalysis session, part colorful genre fantasia, director Bernardo Bertolucci’s enormously influential drama journeys through different styles and aesthetics. He is brought to Rome by Father David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends ... A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.
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Actors: 5 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.Actors: 5 Stars Put on the gloves and LaMotta is in his element; take them off and he’s an insecure sociopath consumed by sexual jealousy. Poetic, compassionate, angry, ironic: All human life is present here.—There’s a tendency in these greatest-of-all-time exercises to prioritize the director, the camerawork or the screenplay. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.Actors: 4.8 Stars
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This one, her celebrated breakout, is something of a spin on Herman Melville’s John Ford’s searing Western casts John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, a pathological racist and, yet, the enduring template for today’s modern antihero. The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Actors: 5 Stars Actors: 4.9 Stars In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Actors: 4.7 Stars Actors: 4.9 Stars Of Buñuel’s many seismic features (don’t skip his slicin’-up-eyeballs short, “Un Chien Andalou”), begin with this radical satire of class warfare, which sums up everything he did well. Direction: 4.9 Stars Déjà vu! Action and adventure
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Screenplay: 4.6 Stars Screenplay: 5 Stars It’s hard to think of one better than this tower-block spectacular—nor one more imitated. An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.