Henry Fonda at his best was a sly mixture of modest heroism and shy wit.

Spike Lee's early take on race relations in Brooklyn remains a stunning accomplishment.

Gene Hackman's "Popeye" Doyle took the tough cop mold and made it his for keeps.

Barbara Kopple's 1976 documentary about an American coal miner's strike is a buried gem.

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.