Classics
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"Chungking Express" is the most ingratiating movie in Wong Kar-Wai's filmography, a meditation on love and urban alienation that stays light on its feet.
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Existential despair meets sixties cool in Masahiro Shinoda's landmark noir thriller.
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When it comes to cynical, tawdry and twisted highway noir, few can match one of the earliest entries in the genre, "Detour."
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Of all of David Lynch's twisted puzzle-box movies, "Mulholland Dr." is the most inviting, and cuts the deepest.
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"Raiders of the Lost Ark" inaugurated a new era of genre thrill-ride moviemaking, even as it celebrated pulp movies of the past.
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Are we facing the end of humanity as we know it? Just in case, The Big Movie Genius and Ho Lin review three movies based on the seminal horror novel "I Am Legend".
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Stanley Kubrick's early heist film honors the conventions of noir cinema, while announcing his arrival as a one-of-a-kind filmmaker.
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"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" boils James Bond back down to essentials, offers him a chance at happiness -- and then pulls the rug out from under us.
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You Only Live Twice (1967, Dir. Lewis Gilbert): “You can come up with anything you like so far as the story goes,” [the Bond producers] told me, “but there are two…
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Thunderball (1965, Dir. Terence Young): ‘When I came to the table I saw a SPECTRE.’ He said the word casually, with no hint at double meaning. The smile came off…