Paul Thomas Anderson’s sophomore feature is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family in the adult film industry of the late 1970s.
John Woo, the action maestro of Hong Kong cinema, is working at the top of his game in this double-barreled revenge thriller built around an absurd premise, outsized emotions, and one show-stopping action set-piece after another.
Paul Verhoeven turns Robert Heinlein’s science fiction classic novel of interstellar war into a perverse concoction of patriotic fervor, fascist ideology, media satire, and military might
This parody of classic James Bond and 1960s spy movies careens from gag to gag with such pop art color and energy that you don’t really mind when it misses the target.
Bill Pullman and Patricia Arquette star in this wierd and mysterious thriller that sends neo-noir into surreal territory, a film that defies literal explanation but has a haunting emotional and thematic logic to it.
This magnificent fantasy of the battle between the forest spirits and the industrial revolution is an environmentalist epic as blood and thunder adventure on an apocalyptic scale.
