Starring: Jennifer Tilly , Gina Gershon , Joe Pantoliano , Barry Kivel Directed By: Lilly Wachowski , Lana Wachowski Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) 88% #180 Critics Consensus: Raw, honest, powerfully acted, and deliciously intense, Blue Is the Warmest Color offers some of modern cin...
Actor Rick Dalton gained fame and fortune by starring in a 1950s television Western, but is now struggling to find meaningful work in a Hollywood that he doesn't recognize anymore. He spends most of his time drinking and palling around with Cliff Booth, his easygoing best friend and l...
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century is a 1999 Disney Channel Original Movie, starring Kirsten Storms as the eponymous heroine. The film was based on the book Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century written by Marilyn Sadler and Roger Bollen. The film was originally conceived as a pilot for a potential...
Meanwhile the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring “Shutter Island” throws back to film noir, and even something like “The Wolf of Wall Street,” with its heady mixture of depravity and moralism, seems inflected by his love of Cecil B. DeMille. There’s even “Hugo”: a historical fiction ...
Starring: Jennifer Tilly , Gina Gershon , Joe Pantoliano , Barry Kivel Directed By: Lilly Wachowski , Lana Wachowski Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) 87% #90 Critics Consensus: Professor Marston & The Wonder Women winds a lasso of cinematic truth around a fascinating fact-based...
The climax in many a John Garfield-starring noir hinges upon a violent realization, as opposed to simply hinging upon violence. This crescendo arrives in Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil when Joe Morse (Garfield), a reptilian lawyer who tries to gain control of New York City’s numbers rac...
Starring Lana Condor and Noah Centineo, who have both become recurring actors in the Gen-Z canon, To All The Boys is set on fire by their hesitant and innocent chemistry that lets the teenagers be regular kids. A common mistake in Gen-Z media is that filmmakers make the characters act to...
Shot in black and white and set in 1951 rural Texas, “The Last Picture Show” provides an intimate view of life in a small town, where the local movie house is showing John Wayne’s “Red River” before closing down for good. The coming-of-age drama, starring Cybill Shepherd and Jeff...
Marilyn Monroe has her first starring role in the convoluted tale of murder and adultery, and she’s so mesmerizing that she throws the balance off a bit — even when Joseph Cotton becomes the focus of the film’s narrative, Monroe can’t help but draw the camera’s (and the audiences...
Written and directed by Michael Davis,Shoot 'Em Upis an over-the-top action dramedy starring Clive Owens as Smith, amilitary veteran and drifterwho finds himself forced to deliver the baby of a woman targeted by a group of assassins led by Hertz (Paul Giamatti). He then rescues the newbo...