Marjorie Baumgarten

Due more to how it makes you think rather than to what it shows, Night of the Living Dead gets under your skin and burrows into your blood and psyche.

Arguably, the best John Ford film ever, certainly one the very best, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is an American classic. Ford addresses the complexity of heroism in a poetic manner.

Michael Mann is in top form here helming this bone-chilling thriller.

One of Hitchcock's very best comic thrillers, North by Northwest features scene after unforgettable scene.

Kubrick’s film vividly depicts the harsh realities of war and remains a great anti-war drama.

Everything about its scale is epic.

The peerless actors match and elevate Lonergan’s artistry beat for beat. And the film’s greatest gift of all may be that it declines to tidy up after itself, prettifying life’s messiness with a finishing bow. In the end, it’s the package that counts, not the wrapping.

Melodrama mixes with light-hearted touches, moral dilemmas, and historical reckoning in Almodóvar’s latest.

Amy Heckerling’s portrait of high school/shopping mall life in Southern California is still just about as good as it gets...The panoply of teen types and turmoils is dead-on accurate.

The spoof that launched a thousand parodies – this is the one that's 100% funny.

An epic biopic, over three hours in length, Gandhi captures the spirit of the man and his struggles.

Ingenious in its simplicity.

With Bad Education, the great Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career.

Hands down, this is the best Astaire-Rogers musical ever. Nothing more needs to be said.

Linklater’s newest film, a true masterwork, eschews this big-bang theory of dramatics in favor of the million-and-one little things that accumulate daily and help shape who we are, and who we will become.

Raimunda believes that dirty linen should be washed at home: Thank goodness Almodóvar hangs some of it up on the screen to dry.

This multi-Oscar-winner nails its characters, time period, and locale so perfectly that it becomes even more compelling as time goes by. Fueled by two riveting character studies and its exposure of New York City's seamy underbelly, the movie screams “contemporary” and “eternal” at once...It's one of those rare movies that comes together just about perfectly, so check out this theatrical release while you can.

As disturbing as it is well-made, this low-budget indie is a thoroughly original piece of work.

Streetcar is always a wonderful screen drama and now, also, a study in film archeology. [Director's Cut]

If Billy Wilder achieved nothing else in his entire career, he would still rank as one of the great masters of cinema for pulling off this comic tour de force.

The story winds its way over the material, forcing the characters and the viewers to constantly reassess everything they have seen and heard.

As sad and poignant and potentially hopeful as it is amusing. The movie is our story as much as it is Schmidt's, no matter if it's viewed as a self-reflection or cautionary tale

One of Chaplin’s sweetest and most humble movies.

Very satisfying. Classic storytelling, modern techniques. And the images: This movie has embedded so many strange and new mental pictures in my head that I'm not able to shake free. Yet, neither would I want to be free.

Peter Weir made this unsettling, atmospheric film early in his career, and it is still one of his most successful projects to date.

A concept executed with bravura style, intelligent curiosity, and playful wit.

A delightful little wormhole that takes us on a journey to another dimension of consciousness.

Nabokov’s satire is sensationally cast, with Winters and Sellers delivering some of their best work ever.