Nic Roeg here offers one of the most disconcerting portraits of otherworldliness ever seen on the screen.

This tear-jerkiest of rom-coms about a couple struggling through fundamental differences will hit you right in the feels.

The three-and-a-half-hour-long movie revels in talk as this man ponders life, philosophy, the sexual revolution, the workers' revolution, love, death, and so on. He smokes, drinks, flirts, and talks –­ and the movie is exquisitely of its time.

Teen tales don’t get much better than this.

Like Night of the Living Dead, The Crazies offers no hope, no comfort and sure as hell no happy ending.

The Hanna-Barbera animation is better than the studio’s usual bare-bones mediocrity, and the voice cast is superb.

Adapted from the Leonard Gardner novel, Fat City is long on character and short on plot (at times nearly playing like a Cassavettes film), but it's a crawl through the mud that'll stay in your psyche for days.

To this day, Dueling Banjoes still gives me the willies.

From its silent opening moments to its breathtaking double-cross conclusion, Le Samourai is the work of one of the film world's great directors working at his expressive peak.

Frenzy is one of the great latter-day Hitchcocks; great technique, great suspense, and very black humor drive this tale of an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of sex murders.

It's that rare horror-comedy that is both comedic and horrifying.

Director Pollack and scriptwriter John Milius transform Vardis Fisher's novel Mountain Man into a gritty, cinematic tall tale that resonates across geography, time, and the loneliest regions of the solitary heart.

Just about as great as a movie's ever gonna be... As for the storytellng, The Godfather is an intricately constructed gem that simultaneously kicks ass.

Pink Flamingos is, in its own unique way, the quintessential American Family Film. Not my family, certainly, and probably not yours, but a family nonetheless. So here's to family values. And shock values, too.

Minnelli and Grey sparkle, and the Fosse flash is everywhere in evidence.

This sophomore effort (his first feature after Night of the Living Dead) is difficult and often exasperating, but worth watching nonetheless. It's kind of a quasi-existentialist counterculture love story, rife with bad rock music and hipster dialogue.

If The Wild Bunch was Peckinpah's most violent film, surely Straw Dogs has to be his coarsest and most intense. Peace and love? Forget it.

A chilling classic, the movie is a scabrous satire about human deviance, brutality, and social conditioning that has remained a visible part of the ongoing public debate about violence and the movies.

Between Plenty O'Toole and Tiffany Case, the diamond smuggler, this film is as over-the-top as they come.

Oscar-winning special effects and animation sequences by Ward Kimball make this musical fantasy a perennial favorite.

Although slowly paced, it is always stunning to look at -- decadent and perverse in that certain Eurotrashy way.

Roeg's points about the contrasts between noble savages and civilized effetes don't stand up terribly well over time.

Fonda (who received an Oscar) and Sutherland are at the top of their game in this mystery/thriller that also provides a fascinating look into the mind and soul of a top NYC call girl.

Sembène achieves this balance of tone with a mix of absurd and biting dialogue and a modest mise en scène.

Bleak but exquisitely fashioned microcosm of American life during the Depression.

Fonda and Hopper’s now-classic film hit the old guard with the force of a rifle shot to the head. [Review of re-release]

Peckinpah's grasp, for once, matches his reach and in this Western story he achieves a mythological tone for his moral fable.

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.