Oppenheimer (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

[6] Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later) stars as the physicist credited with inventing the atomic bomb in this sprawling, rapid-paced, three-hour Best Picture Academy Award winner from director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception). The first hour of Oppenheimer focuses on the…
Dirigible (1931)

Dirigible (1931)

[7] Jack Holt (San Francisco), Ralph Graves (Ladies of Leisure), and Fay Wray (King Kong) star in this early 'talkie' from director Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington). Holt and Graves play a dirigible (blimp)…
Gloria (1980)

Gloria (1980)

[5] A young boy's family is marked for death after the father is caught embezzling money from the mob. Before they are all killed, a tough-as-nails neighbor named Gloria, played by Gena Rowlands, reluctantly agrees to take custody of the…
Possession (1981)

Possession (1981)

[7] Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani star in this disturbing horror film from writer/director Andrzej Zulawski. Adjani's character asks Neill's for a divorce, but when Neill refuses to let her go, both of them descend into madness. Possession is part…
Murina (2021)

Murina (2021)

[5] In Croatia, a teenage girl (Gracija Filipovic) suffers her rigid, controlling father (Leon Lucev) until one of his old friends (Once Were Warriors' Cliff Curtis) visits and inspires her to seek a better life. At first, she tries to…
All of Us Strangers (2023)

All of Us Strangers (2023)

[10] Most films are designed with universal appeal to attract the widest possible audience. But some of the most powerful films you'll ever see are the ones -- the very rare few -- written and directed with such specificity and…
EO (2022)

EO (2022)

[3] This review contains spoilers. The only thing worse than disliking a movie from the start is loving a movie, and then having the movie betray you in the end. Such a film is EO, a Polish film from veteran…
Shin Godzilla (2016)

Shin Godzilla (2016)

[6] Japan's Toho Pictures launched a third reboot of their Godzilla franchise with this 29th installment (not counting two American-made movies). Shin Godzilla follows various political figures and public agencies as they deal with the arrival of a giant creature…
Sunflower (1970)

Sunflower (1970)

[5] Sophia Loren stars in the final film from director Vittorio de Sica, about an Italian woman despondently searching for her soldier husband (Marcello Mastroianni) in the fallout of World War II. Unable to learn from the government whether he's…
Akira (1988)

Akira (1988)

[7] Katsuhiro Ôtomo directs this adaptation of his sprawling manga series about (okay, deep breath...) a futuristic biker who squares off against a former friend who has turned evil through scientific experimentation, transforming him into a dangerous super-being of both…