Action/Adventure Rated R
"…like a Tony Scott film made with less flair and cheaper equipment."
Drama Rated R
Nearly every frame of Shaft is intent on doing one thing: establishing its hero – private detective John Shaft – as a powerful, independent, innately good yet still devilish man in complete control of his own destiny. How does this differ from the many screen heroes who came before? Well, Shaft is black. And this
Documentary Rated NR
“Even when the conspiracies are at their wackiest – yes, someone suggests watching The Shining backwards – the documentary remains genially intrigued.
A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but
Coffy is at once a notable moment in female-empowerment cinema and a pervasive exercise in the objectification of women. It’s as if Gloria Steinem wrote a screenplay that was then handed off to Hugh Hefner to direct. After appearing in a couple of women-in-prison pictures, Pam Grier broke out as Coffy, a nurse with a
Comedy Rated R
“You may think things go over the top, but keep in mind The Campaign is competing with a real world in which a married politician tweets a picture of his crotch.
Drama Rated NR
Still ahead of its time. It isn’t only that writer-director and co-star Jean Renoir pioneered crucial cinematic techniques (he used deep focus here two years before Orson Welles employed it in Citizen Kane), it’s that the film has an attitude of empathetic enlightenment that remains a rarity. The first third of The Rules of the
"…the bodily invasions are not only reflective of a psychological state, but of a socioeconomic one as well."
"…registers less as a drama than as a filmed scientific experiment."
If the cinema had a face, it would have to be that of Maria Falconetti. As the star – the celestial center, really – of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s dramatization of the trial of Joan of Arc, Falconetti is a religious icon come to life. This makes her performance sound operatic, yet what’s astonishing is how
