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Babylon 4K
Is it a train wreck or an unrecognized masterpiece? Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt topline this enormous, enormously profane epic of silent-era…
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Mildred Pierce 4K
'Washed up' at MGM, Joan Crawford bounced back with one of the smartest, best-judged career rethinks in Hollywood history. As James M.…
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The Long Wait 4K
This Mickey Spillane noir tale has its good points: star Anthony Quinn gives a solid 'tough guy' performance, sizing up a quartet…
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Something to Live For
Hollywood's postwar shift to social consciousness addressed familiar issues like bigotry and discrimination. On his way to making his gargantuan, serious epics,…
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Mississippi Mermaid
François Truffaut is back with another Hitchcock-influenced adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich murder thriller, with stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo as…
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Death of a Gunfighter
Richard Widmark reportedly used his clout to amp up this revisionist western, but the result seems forced at best, and hampered by…
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Obsessed
This very traditional chamber murder mystery starring David Farrar and Geraldine Fitzgerald has been beautifully restored by Studiocanal and bears the original…
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The Lady Is My Wife
Wow, a 'new' Sam Peckinpah western! While we await the rumored Blu-ray of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid to surface (or…
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The Mountain
The French Alps in VistaVision and Technicolor really sell this inspirational thriller. Spencer Tracy stars is the utterly ethical mountaineer, and young…
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The Green Room
François Truffaut goes deep and morbid adapting a Henry James story about a man who chooses to 'devote himself to his beloved…
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Sci-fi from the Vault: 4 Films
Mill Creek's latest disc collection gathers three Columbia Sci-fi faves and throws in a Blu-ray debut for a fourth. It's a good…
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The House that Screamed
What makes Franco-era Spanish horror so horrible? The unnecessary cruelty and emphatic nastiness, a combination that's led to more than a few…
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Romeo and Juliet ’68
Franco Zeffirelli apprenticed to Luchino Visconti, stage directed operas and directed several movie hits, the biggest of which was this exuberant, attractive…
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Carrie (1952)
This expensive production was dismissed as a flop, and literary critics scorned it for diluting the famed novel by Theodore Dreiser. But…
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If I Were King
It's a nearly perfect tale of identity swaps and royal intrigues: Ronald Colman's voice is velvet smooth as the poet-rogue François Villon,…
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Marathon Man 4K
William Goldman's international conspiracy thriller provides Dustin Hoffman with an outright 'action man' star vehicle. The public applauded supporting star Laurence Olivier,…
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Dazed and Confused 4K
"Where were you in '76?" The newest entrant in Criterion's 4K disc club is Richard Linklater's rowdy but affectionate ode to high…
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Robert Donat snagged an Oscar for this sentimental crowdpleaser, a Best Picture nominee in Hollywood's 'Golden Year' of 1939. The genteel chemistry…
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The Big Gundown
Quentin Tarantino crowned Sergio Corbucci as the second-best director of Italian westerns, but our vote goes to Sergio Sollima -- this is…
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A Rage to Live
It's a hot soap from '65, when movies promised raging passion but delivered cheap teases and hypocritical judgments. It's Suzanne Pleshette's only…
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The Bride Wore Black
François Truffaut's ode to Hitchcock and Cornell Woolrich is an ice-cold femme revenge tale. Jeanne Moreau exacts retribution from five men who…
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Rancho Notorious
We love this Fritz Lang western even though it's not particularly good; only in hindsight do we realize that the brilliant director's…
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Marco Polo ’62
You can't argue with disc collectors eager to rediscover movies they loved at age 10, in terrific kiddie matinees. Cowboy star Rory…
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Monsieur Hire
Highest honors go to this stylish, cinematically refined adaptation of a George Simenon thriller. Michel Blanc becomes a person of interest for…
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Death Wish, 4K
Locked and loaded with a decent screenplay, Michael Winner and Charles Bronson acquit themselves well in this brutal 1974 hit that launched…
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The Asphyx
Awkwardly plotted but chilling just the same, this beautifully-filmed tale of Victorian experimentation with death has nightmarish qualities that won't go away.…