The Oscar-nominated drama from Jason Reitman taps into the anxieties of our precarious times and gives a voice to the victims of downsizing and those who have kept afloat be remaining completely untethered.
Kinji Fukasaku, the madman of Japanese yakuza cinema, directs this gleefully gruesome splatter satire of teenage nihilism, adult paranoia, and social sadism.
Nicholas Winding Refn’s social commentary-as-heady horror film isn’t big on subtlety but his allegory for the hunger for youth and beauty is fascinating and gorgeous.
Matthew Modine and Alec Baldwin costar in Jonathan Demme’s follow up to ‘Something Wild,’ a colorful crime comedy with outsized characters and wonderfully tacky fashions.
The 1951 classic from director Robert Wise remains one of the most thoughtful of the first contact films over 70 years after it was made. “Klaatu barada nikto!”
Director Ruben Östlund uses dark humor to explore parental expectations and obligations after a crisis reveals a failure of nerve, and delivers a comedy with a dramatic foundation that leaves audiences with issues to chew over.
The most glamorous movie star of her day was also a pioneering scientist who never received credit for her history-changing invention until the end of her long, complicated life.
The Japanese comedian reinvented himself as a brutal gangster and as a director of maverick crime dramas with these two films set in the Japanese underworld.
