Sea of Love (1989)
[7] Al Pacino stars as a New York detective working with John Goodman to solve a series of murders -- all men shot in the back of the head, face down on their beds, presumably by a woman out for…
Excalibur (1981)
[9] Director John Boorman (Deliverance, Zardoz) mounts an ambitious pastiche of the entire Arthurian legend with Excalibur. Nigel Terry plays King Arthur from his naïve youth to his death and departure for Avalon, guided nearly every step of the way…
Dark City (1998)
[7] [This review is of the 2008 Director's Cut.] Director Alex Proyas follows up his cult sensation The Crow with this dark, dystopian sci-fi flick about an amnesiac man (Rufus Sewell) who discovers a sinister force is manipulating him and…
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
[9] Director Michael Mann (Manhunter, Heat) adapts James Fenimore Cooper's novel (with additional credit to the screenwriters of a 1936 version of this movie) set during America's French and Indian War. Three Mohican fur trappers, the last of their dying…
The Dark Crystal (1982)
[10] Jen and Kira, the last of their kind, must restore a missing shard to a magical crystal in order to unite two warring races and bring peace to their fractured world. The story may be too dark and dreary…