Hollywood's Brief Cocaine Binge
In the late '80s, as the Reagan years were winding down, three movies tried to mark the dark side of runaway excess.
10 Thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds' ✦
In 1963, Hitchcock followed the mammoth success of ‘Psycho’ with an elusive, unsettling film unlike anything else he’d ever make.
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In Review: 'Bad Boys: Ride Or Die,' 'The Watchers'
A venerable buddy-cop franchise delivers the action goods while a second-generation director makes an appropriately twisty debut.
Caught Looking: The Unsavory Allure of ‘Peeping Tom’
Lost, rediscovered, and newly restored, Michael Powell’s lurid tale of murder and filmmaking has lost none of its power to disturb.
#75 (tie): 'Spirited Away': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
The first of two Hiyao Miyazaki films on the Sight & Sound list visits a bathhouse for spirits that operates on its own mesmerizing dream logic.
In Review: 'Hit Man,' 'In a Violent Nature'
Richard Linklater's latest casts Glen Powell as psychology professor with a double identity and a new slasher film finds a fresh angle on an old genre.