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One of Disney’s finest achievements of the sixties, and still a favorite of mine, “101 Dalmatians” is both a cheeky story of doggie romance and a thrilling detective tale with a villainous twist. (Guess what Cruella ...

Sidney Lumet's first feature film is a spare, powerful human drama of the first order. Fonda has never been better as the voice of reason, and his fellow jurors are played by some of the best character actors of the ...

One of the new flowerings of recent Romanian cinema, the award-winning black comedy "Bucharest" is a sterling example of stone-faced Eastern European wit and self-deprecating satire. Jderescu, a Romanian Charlie Rose, ...

This nail-biting existential thriller is based on actual incidents involving murder and high-rolling bettors. Filmed in stark, pristine black-and-white, "13 Tzameti" builds suspense first around Sébastien's journey to a ...

Adapted from a short story by Stephen King, Hafstrom's petrifying "1408" is perfect viewing for a cold, chilly night (and trust me-way too scary for the little ones). There's nothing subtle about the jumps and bumps, ...

Rich's rendering of the classic Jules Verne tale by Walt Disney was, at the time, the most costly picture ever made, and it shows. The re-mastering of this beloved fantasy adventure is visually breathtaking, with ...

Above synopsis only begins to describe this most cosmic, dense and challenging of science fiction films, which director Kubrick co-wrote with sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. In this new two-disc, special edition, "2001" ...

Dreamy, entrancing, rapturous, and unabashedly romantic, Wong’s elegantly wrought tone poem is partly a sequel to his masterful “In the Mood for Love,” as it features Cheung and Leung reprising their roles as not-quite ...

Though the premise sounds - and is - frighteningly close to George Romero's zombie movies, this entry comes off fresh and fierce, thanks to Alex Garland's writing, an English setting and solid British actors, notably ...

This moody, dreamlike drama of psychological obsession was one of Altman's finest films of the 1970s, owing mostly to the oddities of his two female leads, Spacek and Duvall, whose performances are surreal and strangely ...