Detective noir goes to California high school in Rian Johnson's finely-tuned effort.

Fassbinder's exploration of West German xenophobia is still apt decades later.

Reiner's military procedural has an ace up its sleeve: an angry Jack Nicholson.

Memory is the brave new world in director Andrei Tarkovsky's Solyaris.

The 1943 French thriller "Le Corbeau" is a memorable study of propaganda's perils.

Chilean Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 genre-bender is a symbolic feast for eyes and mind alike.

Carl Theodor Dreyer's Joan of Arc story is a platform for Maria Falconetti's astounding face.

One gulp of wet sand and everything begins to taste like sex in Hiroshi Teshigahara's film.

Robert Redford struck gold in this quirky little movie about greed and town spirit.

Ken Loach's "The Troubles" thriller feels like Costa Gavras does Northern Ireland.

Ephron and Reiner: They don't make orgasms like they used to.