Sin City
Despite lot of style, neither sins nor city take on a life of their own.
Finding Forrester
Gus Van Sant's Connery-driven drama is maudlin to the max.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Three decades later, "Raiders" is still the modern matinee masterpiece.
Mighty Aphrodite
Thanks to Mira Sorvino, Woody Allen's lightweight goddess carries charming heft.
Videocracy
Erik Gandini's rough-edge documentary on the ascent of Berlusconi-era TV is a bitter pill.
Buffalo ’66
Vincent Gallo's best movie was his first, because its heart is close to home.
Easy Rider
A centerpiece of 60s counterculture, this is the movie that first put Jack Nicholson in the limelight.
Midnight Cowboy
Dustin Hoffman and John Voight give this overbaked drama a deep kind of soul.
Disgrace
John Malkovich shines dark light in a screen adaptation of JM Coetzee's novel.
This Sporting Life
Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts give screen clout to David Storey's 1960 novel.
State of Play
If you're going to make a farewell-to-newspapers thriller at least get the paper size right.