We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007)

James Gray opens We Own the Night with a brief montage of gritty black-and-white still photographs of policemen in the late 1980s. These ph...

Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart deserves credit for nabbing Jeff Bridges the most awards buzz he's ever gotten. Few actors can hold a candle to Bridges, pa...

The Godfather Part II

If The Godfather served as a haunting eulogy for the American nuclear family, its sequel charted the death of the American Dream, ironicall...

The Road

Few directors so completely match the content of an adapted work like John Hillcoat does The Road . Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic n...

The Godfather

No director epitomized the rewards and the pitfalls of New Hollywood quite like Francis Ford Coppola . All four of the feature films he mad...

Apocalypse Now

The real stars of Francis Ford Coppola's troubled epic are not Martin Sheen or Marlon Brando. They're not even Coppola or writer Joh...