This summer, I dragged my mom to The Clairidge—a single screen movie theater in Montclair, New Jersey—for a matinee of Alexander Payne’s “Election.” The theater was featuring a series, titled “Clash ...

Top 10 lists are a gift and scourge to critics. They provide a prominent platform for us to do what we like to do: tell everyone what movies to see. But they also force us into painful mental ...

Presaging the Outlaw West and skirting the flanks of the Civil War, Ang Lee’s brilliant adaptation of Daniel Woodrell’s novel is a deeply human story of confused young men coming of age with blood on ...

When you look at all the films that came out in 1999, it feels like every filmmaker was in a rush to make the last great movie of the 20th century. This ambition was possible in an era where studios ...

For 1999 week, our film writers carefully compiled and voted on a list of the 25 best films of the year. But even a list of 25 isn’t long enough to capture everyone’s favorite film from such a seminal ...

The end of a year is time for stock-taking. A decade calls for even more. And a century or a millennium? The sheer potential for memory or fact overload can be mind-boggling. So, what can we say about ...

Mike Leigh takes you to every nook and cranny behind the scenes of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” in this extraordinary valentine to the act of artistic collaboration. 2. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH ...