A film about how amusement, if visionary talent assembles the production, can have greater significance than mere escapism.

There are boundless delights in Wong’s exploration of the ephemeral, desirous chambers of the mind.

It asks and begs the question: When does artistic representation stop being a creative force and become something destructive?

Hal Ashby’s film of grand and life-affirming ideas.

Reichardt’s willingness to question the certainty of masculine Westerns supplies an investigation of reality, our incomplete view of it, and the limits of true knowledge.

Albert Brooks’ funniest, most cynical, yet most insightful film.

Stanley Kubrick’s metaphysical and narrative maze.

Capra’s wrestles with his unwavering love of the American ideal and his understanding that people could too easily be led to corrupt it

It uses a mixture of realism and folklore, lust and horror, to disentangle nuclear-era contexts in a postmodern approach.