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"When they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what...

I think it’s safe to say that William Friedkin had one of the more star-crossed careers of any director from...

There’s no way around it, Primal Fear is pulp. I don’t mean that as a pejorative—I love pulp. But boy,...

 John Huston was wheelchair bound and on portable oxygen when he directed his adaptation of James Joyce’s short story “The...

On the surface, Witness looks like a mash-up of two tropes: the good cop protecting an eye-witness from danger, and...

I was recently asked about the scene where George Clooney as Michael Clayton stops off by the side of the...

I’m going to ask you to stick with me for a moment. Zero Dark Thirty is the terrorist version of...

As an adolescent, Barney Miller was a staple in my household. If memory serves correctly (always a bit of a...

The recent death of Pele, the greatest footballer ever, brought to my mind a teen drama from 1985 starring Matthew...

"I think there's a storm -- seems like it's a-brewin'." -- Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley) I first encountered Robert Altman's...

Few actors in the history of cinema have had a hot streak like Al Pacino did from 1971 to 1979....

“He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and...

In the late spring of 1989, my best friend Barry and I walked into Ready Theater in the small town...

“How many children had Lady Macbeth?” is a notorious phrase among literary critics. While some have considered the question seriously,...

There he goes, showing us the ugly again.  These are words I seem to remember Brad Pitt saying about Sean...

On the surface, Children of a Lesser God may look like a romantic drama about communication, and while it is that, it’s...

I know at the time many considered Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn’s massively successful novel a beach read or an airport...

Has there ever been a more transgressive director than Jane Campion? Whether you are talking about Sweetie, An Angel At...

The Color of Money is an outlier in the career of Martin Scorsese. While few think it’s an outright bad...

There is a version of Ali that would have pleased almost everyone. A safe version that played like a ‘greatest...