[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] A revolver lies on a cluttered desk. Beside it: a police badge...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] There is a centaur in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea . Not a literal...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Stylistically, Robert Eggers’ remake of Nosferatu resembles one...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] There is a scene relatively early in Queer’s sprawling narrative that...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] At first glance, The Crimson Kimono  appears to be a rather...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] While The Assassin  is often classified as a wuxia film, it is...

Although he is widely regarded as a pioneer of the jidaigeki  genre, Daisuke Ito’s directorial efforts remain elusive in the West. Fans...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] As might reasonably be expected of an epic poem based on oral...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] The imagery in Kenji Misumi’s Kenki  is reminiscent of haiku :...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Edward Dmytryk’s The Sniper  caught me unawares—like a bullet...

[ The following essay contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] The Exorcist III  is, first and foremost, about faith . I don’t...

[ The following review contains MINOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] In many ways, River  is less artistically ambitious than Beyond...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] There’s a recurring image in Juror #2  that is as impactful as it is...

[ The following review contains SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Hundreds of Beavers  isn’t just the best comedy released to the general...

Creature from the Black Lagoon  belongs to the horror genre; that much is obvious. Not from the perspective of the human “protagonists,”...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] With the possible exception of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] Michael Powell's Peeping Tom opens with an extreme closeup of an...

While Alice, Sweet Alice  (alternatively titled Communion and Holy Terror ) ostensibly takes place in the early 1960s, its themes are...

[ The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ] For approximately ninety percent of its ( extremely brief)...

I’ll say this for Torso : it wastes little time; within the first ten seconds  of the opening credits, a woman has already removed her...