Category: Film - Page 14 - The American Mag

Indiscretion of an American Wife (Stazione Termini)

By William Graebner & Dianne Bennett | February 10th, 2018

Vittorio De Sica's "Stazione Termini" got David O. Selznick's editing and an American title.

Ridley Scott's retelling of the Italian kidnapping of John Paul Getty II elicits superb work from patriarch Christopher Plummer.

Tom Cruise is in top form in Doug Liman's sly take on the life and times of one Barry Seal.

Paul Thomas Anderson's dives into the British fashion world of the 1950s, and creates an difficult romance.

In reconfiguring humans, director Alexander Payne has more than sci-fi comedy on his mind.

Trey Edward Shults' low budget thriller links a killer plague with human mistrust and fear wins out.

Greek director Yorgis Lanthimos' psychological thriller borrows from both Greek tragedy and horror and emerges triumphant.

A decade later David Fincher's serial killer film still stands tall as a study in administrative futility.

Frances McDormand helps Martin McDonagh's "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" hit a rural nerve.

Greta Gerwig's "Lady Bird" gets fine work from Soarise Ronan, but ultimately flubs the script.

Delmer Daves' 1962 film, while no "Roman Holiday" or "La Dolce Vita," possesses its own small pleasures.

In a sabre-rattling age, Richard Linklater's "Last Flag Flying" may be as close as the U.S. can come to an anti-war film.