Fritz Lang’s 1931 masterpiece remains an urgent critique of groupthink and mob mentalities.

Bertrand Bonello sets a frighteningly beautiful minefield for his audience to navigate.

Pedro Almodóvar’s celebration of women is as layered as its characters.

Jia Zhangke’s terrific debut film marked the arrival of a distinct artist working on the margins of Chinese cinema.

Kurosawa’s late-career epic believes in the potential for imitation to have real meaning.

This is Stanley Kubrick’s most psychologically complex and debated work.

It’s one of the best musicals ever made and remains a chilling reminder of how apathy can enable the rise of authoritarianism.

To watch the film is to experience how depressives register the pain of existence and may even look to The End with a blissful, gracious heart.

A timeless work of art and entertainment, vital for historical study, but perhaps more essentially, urgently watchable and accessible more than a century later.