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The Sting: A Con of Cinematic and Musical Perfe...

Ah, The Sting (1973)—a film that made trickery look so elegant you'd almost feel bad for the marks. Directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford...

Robin Hood (2010): The Outlaw King Without the ...

Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood (2010) is the kind of film that asks, “What if Robin Hood, but gritty?” and then commits to the bit with all the medieval mud and dour-faced...

Six Days, Seven Nights: A Tropical Adventure wi...

Ivan Reitman’s Six Days, Seven Nights (1998) is a lighthearted adventure-romance that leans on the charm of its leads—Harrison Ford and Anne Heche—to elevate a familiar stranded-on-an-island premise. Set against...

Revolution on Rails: Snowpiercer and the Sound ...

Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer (2013) is a heady mix of dystopian sci-fi, class warfare, and blistering action, all wrapped up in a grimy, ice-cold aesthetic. Based on the French graphic novel...

Ticket to Tension: The Pulse-Pounding Score of ...

Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Commuter (2018) is the sort of film that takes an ordinary situation—one man’s daily train ride—and dials it up to Hitchcockian levels of paranoia. Liam Neeson, in...

Elizabeth: The Golden Age – A Triumph of Specta...

Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) is a lavish, sweeping sequel to his 1998 Elizabeth, once again starring Cate Blanchett as the indomitable Virgin Queen. If the first film...