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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Still looking sharp 26 years since its premiere, James Cameron's picture completely masters the mass audience thriller while pushing the effects envelope…
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Ruby
A significant horror hit from '77, Ruby surprised all that made it including its director Curtis Harrington, who struggled with an interfering…
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Dunkirk
A huge summer hit and a righteous blow struck for positive, non-comic book entertainment, Christopher Nolan's account of a WW2 crisis is…
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Pulp
A spoof? A black comedy? Michael Hodges and Michael Caine's hardboiled 'foreign intrigue' comedy lays on the movie references and clever dialogue,…
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A LETTER TO RIAN JOHNSON
It feels a little bit like Christmas morning around the house this morning, even though we’ve still got a week and change…
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CineSavant picks The Most Impressive Restorations of 2017
CineSavant 2017 Favored Disc Roundup Savant picks The Most Impressive Restorations of 2017 This is a tough year for best-of Home Video…
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Four Faces West
Westerns are all about values: good and bad, law and lawlessness, etc. Joel McCrea and Frances Dee's 'bad man' saga isn't faith…
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Night Passage — Die Uhr ist abgelaufen
It's the great Anthony Mann-James Stewart western that Mann didn't direct: Stewart goes it alone, over-filling a good western idea with 'cute'…
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
This devastating romantic melodrama is Max Ophüls' best American picture -- perhaps because it seems so European? It's probably Joan Fontaine's finest…
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Casualties of War
In 1969 The New Yorker published a detailed exposé by Daniel Lang concerning four soldiers deployed in the Phu My district of…
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Maigret Sets a Trap & Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Welcome to a pair of vintage mysteries with George Simenon's popular Inspector Jules Maigret, a gumshoe who gets the tough cases. Top…
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A New Leaf – Olive Signature
Filtered through her experience as an unequalled comic performer, writer-director Elaine May scores a bulls-eye with this grossly underappreciated gem, fashioned in…
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The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Criterion lavishes a major upgrade to its older box set celebrating the first major rock concert event, the 'California Dreamin' idyll that…
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Deathdream
Average fans of A Christmas Story likely don't know that director Bob Clark had once made creepy horror pictures with Alan Ormsby,…
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General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a precedent! Barbet Schroeder's documentary gets up close and personal with a narcissistic dictator consumed by his…
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NOTES ON THE LANDLORD AND LEE GRANT
Hal Ashby’s The Landlord, made in 1970, is probably the best movie of the 1970s not to be widely known by younger…
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Election
We've all met Tracy Flick -- the eager-beaver student that charms the right teachers, wins all the awards and corners the big…
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Stay Hungry
Are '70s auteur pictures liberated and loose, or flaky and undisciplined? Bob Rafelson's Alabama escapade places Jeff Bridges amid a wide range…
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Operation Petticoat
Tony Curtis grew up idolizing the suave and funny Cary Grant, emulated his romantic moves as an actor and then performed a…
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Hangover Square
No, it's not a the-day-after sequel to The Lost Weekend, but a class-act mystery-horror from 20th-Fox, at a time when the studio…
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Wolf (All-Region)
Aooowww --- Woo! Jack Nicholson summons his inner dog -- and dons the makeup and scary contact lenses -- to go the…
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Little Big Man (Region B)
Arthur Penn's under-appreciated epic has everything a big-scale western could want -- spectacle, interesting characters, good history and a sense of humor.…
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THE WONDERFUL WORLDS OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN, VOLUME TWO: 1961-1964
Indicator follows up The Wonderful Worlds of Ray Harryhausen, Volume One: 1955-1960 with, wait for it, Volume 2: 1961-1964, featuring three of Harryhausen's…
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Scarecrow
We're on the road again with a pair of eccentric new-age hobos, the kind that just can't hack it in polite society.…
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The Yellow Handkerchief
Ready for some full- on Japanese sentimentality? Superlative tough guy Ken Takakura takes us deep into heartbreak territory in search of a…