Capsule Reviews: While the City Sleeps, Cracking Up, The Kid, Rock of Ages

While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, 1956) Fritz Lang's underseen noir blends the yellowest of journalism with King Lear  in a prescient, ...

Steven Spielberg: War of the Worlds

It's just as well that War of the Worlds  was hobbled upon its initial release by the lingering effects of Tom Cruise's infamous cou...

Steven Spielberg: Minority Report

Filmed from March to July 2001, Minority Report  was not influenced by the September 11 attacks later that year, yet retrospectively it seem...

Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011)

The trait that links all four Mission: Impossible  movies, each helmed by a different director of wildly differing stylistic sensibilities, ...

Collateral

The best case for Michael Mann's visual genius can be made by comparing his depictions of Los Angeles in Heat , his most well-known and ...

1989 Rewind: Born on the Fourth of July

Oliver Stone may be traveling down the long slope to mediocrity -- W. was a surprising success, but even then only if your expectations hav...