J.J. Abrams' prequel to a sequel does everything right, but who said anything about soul?

Antonioni's 1957 "Il Grido" makes its point thanks to the vast and treeless voodoo of the Po Valley.

Does war make you mad? Not necessarily. Sometimes it only makes things clearer.

In Mike Nichols' classic, a bored housewife does it with a younger Benjamin and ends up losing her religion.

Hitch turns birds into the menacing, lethal agents of blonde ambition gone wrong.

Woody Allen's sex-and-the-city masterpiece endures for its supreme compassion.

Albert and David Maysles documentary reveals two Ediths in a state of memorable decay.

Almodóvar's characters panhandle for sympathy but get chump change instead.

Though much about Scorsese's 80s effort is hackneyed, Newman and Cruise are not.

Alain Resnais's experimental classic puts feelings ahead of logic and adds a maze.

Wong Kar-wai burrows winningly into quirky love lives of Hong Kong cops.