Edition 5 — Week of June 13, 2026 (Archived)
The latter half of the film is one long feeding frenzy, guided by a familiar horror-film principle: survival of the best-looking.
— Janet Maslin, New York Times
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Perhaps the major problem is that despite Cage and Dern's best efforts, Lynch is ultimately interested only in iconography, not characters at all.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sight & Sound
Perky, disreputable housemaid in 1935 Georgia. Honest and engaging.
— Caryn James, The New York Times
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Sam Bowden has always provided for his family's future. But the past is coming back to haunt them.
1962
Now he had only one weapon left—murder!
Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a romance, a western, a whodunit and a lesson in the bloody history of the Osage murders of the 1920s.
— Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
When an elusive thief whose high-stakes heists unfold along the iconic 101 freeway in Los Angeles eyes the score of a lifetime, with hopes of this being his final job, his path collides with a disillusioned insurance broker who is facing her own crossroads. Determined to crack the case, a relentless detective closes in on the operation, raising the stakes even higher.
1988
A lovers’ story.
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
Movies Focus, Life as a House, Our Lady of the Assassins and Donnie Darko are released on video; brief excerpts from original reviews; photo (M)
— , The New York Times
The movie feels perfectly timed to coincide with our nation's latest flirtation with the apocalypse.
— Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
1946
The most deceitful man a woman ever loved!
1970
A comedy about life, death and freedom.
"Her willingness to commit so fully to big, loud, and unrestrained is staggering, the resulting importance embarrassing (in the best possible way) and deeply unsettling."
"It’s a statement about my stupidity, your stupidity, everybody’s stupidity…There is a decadence in America. I see it all around me.”I wrote about why Nashville is the best American film:"
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"'One day when I was 17 and I was up late with insomnia yet again, I watched it. My belief in the human spirit was permanently altered, for better and worse. Tank Girl is amazing! It was fun!"
"You don't really get the sense from our current crop of prominent filmmakers that even if they had 120 mill to make whatever they wanted, that they'd make something so unabashedly unhinged and ponderous."
"Fennell couldn’t be more moronic if she tried"
"The other was Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, which centres on Jennifer Lawrence as Grace, a new mother living in isolation and struggling to maintain her grip on reality."