Satirical yet earnest, ironic yet heartfelt, optimistic yet never cloying.

Kubrick’s classic captures humanity’s relentless death drive in comical, realistic, practical, and inevitable terms.

King Hu’s martial arts masterpiece is existential and exciting.

A stunning example of Kathryn Bigelow’s ongoing investigation of conventional genres through a postmodern feminist framework. 

One of David Cronenberg’s richest works of entertainment as social deconstruction.

A thriller about a world caught up in the rumors, mounting tension, politicized repression, and uncertainty that preceded World War II.

A true expression of horror in how Almodóvar has subverted his usual desirous cinema into something altogether unsettling. 

The film’s message resonates with the sharpest clarity of purpose of any film in Kobayashi’s career.

An artful examination of a brutal subject.