Winter’s Bone
Director Debra Granik's movie is a film noir for the neglected American South.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Taylor and Burton are scary brilliant in Albee's story of American repression.
Gallipoli
Peter Weir's last Australian feature tapped two young actors and painful history.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Made during the brief feminist wave of the 1970s, KVK is an American benchmark.
The Hill
Thanks to Lumet, Sean Connery briefly escaped 007 duty — and played tough.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Aside from husbandry, men are irrelevant in this Monroe-Russell classic.
La fine del mondo nel nostro solito letto in una notte piena di pioggia (A Night Full of Rain)
Lina Wertmüller's 1977 take on cross-cultural marriage still has its merits.
Georgia
Jennifer Jason Leigh does what she knows best: Humiliation and meltdown.
Shock values
Out of nowhere, an Italian documentary riveted the pre-global world.
Green Zone
Bourne director Paul Greengrass flubs his chance to make a good Iraq film.
The Last Seduction
Keep that Fiorentino girl out of the kitchen, and hide the knives.