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The Grifters
What a great picture to see bumped to 4K ... when that grinding Elmer Bernstein cue launches the titles, we know we're…
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Nora Prentiss
It's another intense film noir with a strong woman dealing with a weak man. Ann Sheridan comes through with a great performance…
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Inglourious Basterds
It's one of Tarantino's best: Arrow Video repackages his celebration of absurd wartime action thrillers with a battery of new featurettes and…
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Russ Meyer’s Vixen!
Whoa! What was once 'raw adult' fare now plays as quaint -- yet still hot. Voyeurism becomes entertainment -- America's mammary-obsessed independent…
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Weak Spot
aka Le faille. Radiance comes up with yet another exotic Eurothriller. Author Antonis Samarakis' first-person experience informs this sophisticated study of the…
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Sahara
Where has this one been? The excellent war drama features Humphrey Bogart in one of his most satisfying roles, as a get-it-done…
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A Bridge Too Far — 4K
Joseph E. Levine's multi-star WWII epic is one of the last Road Show blockbusters: Robert Redford, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Dirk Bogarde,…
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The Searchers
The Warner Archive Collection's first 4K Ultra HD release is a glowing digital restoration of John Ford's unequalled western classic, considered to…
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Incubus
One of the strangest American films of the '60s is Leslie Stevens' occult thriller starring William Shatner -- who speaks all his…
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The Tall Target
An 1861 plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln is smartly styled as a 'film noir in costume.' Southern secessionists want Abe dead, and…
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No Country for Old Men
The Coen brothers' modern classic adapts Cormac McCarthy's book about drug violence on the border. Welcome to supply & demand economics at…
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The Hunted
William Friedkin whips up some terrific action and nasty knife-fighting with solid input from Tommy Lee Jones and Benecio Del Toro. Despite…
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Revenge of the Zombies
The living dead didn't hunger for brains back in the 1940s, but they did walk with Frances Dee, elect a King and…
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Slap the Monster on Page One
Some Italian thrillers post-1968 became very political. Marco Bellocchio's outright accusation against the power elite of Milan all but drops the thriller…
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Body and Soul
Abraham Polonsky and Robert Rossen's ringside classic is a key film noir and a key social issue film; John Garfield and Lilli…
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Scarface
Howard Hawks' ferocious, never-bettered gangster saga has the best of pre-Code thrills -- sex and violence at the service of basic All-American…
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Pulp Fiction — 30th Anniversary 4K
How soon will it be before Quentin Tarantino's films are considered 'old man's movies?' This time-twisted hit man tale made a big…
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Interstellar
Competing for gift box attention this holiday is this impressive 4K Ultra HD anniversary release of Christopher Nolan's intelligent answer to 2001,…
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Little Women
This Winona Ryder version of Alcott's venerated page-turner is the most satisfying to date, as adapted by Robin Swicord, directed by Gillian…
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Galaxy Quest
Never give up, never surrender! A comic spoof of Star Trek and Trekkie worship does not sound promising, but this bright and…
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Nothing is Sacred: Three Heresies by Luis Buñuel
Three Buñuel masterpieces arrive in remastered Blu-ray presentations, accompanied by excellent new extras. The Exterminating Angel clobbers élitist complacency. The irreverent Simon…
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Paper Moon
It's a seriocomic fable from the Great Depression: Ryan O'Neal's Moses Pray runs a predatory racket hawking expensive Bibles, and the only…
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The Walking Dead
The Dead Walk -- and accuse! One of the best non-classic horror films of the '30s is a polished production: Michael Curtiz…
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Funny Girl
Barbra Streisand's movie debut takes a slot in the Criterion Collection, and jumps to 4K Ultra HD. Opened up from Broadway and…
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The Proud and Profane
Deborah Kerr shines as an emotionally troubled war widow who volunteers to do Red Cross work in the Pacific Theater of WW2.…
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Seven Samurai
Behold a 'world cinema classic' that needs no defending, no way, no how ... a review isn't really necessary, just see it!…