This peculiar, whimsical animated feature from France is a welcome alternative to inane, American princess movies; it’s a fairy tale that is...

Since it first came out in 1992, I have had a tempestuous relationship with Peter’s Friends, a pathetic saga of unrealistic expectations, da...

This 50th Anniversary re-release doesn’t look a day over 21. Maybe it’s the fashion world plotline that’s still so popular (Ugly Betty, The...

Alex and Margot are former childhood sweethearts, now happily married and surrounded by loving friends and family. On an annual visit to the...

Jessica, a coltish ingénue, flees her provincial home and a failed relationship in search of the glamorous life in Paris. She winds up on Av...

The bitch is back! Season two of Melrose Place (1993 to ’94) was the season the drama hit its stride, and is probably the best of its seven-...

Running with Scissors is based on writer Augusten Burroughs’s memoir of his deranged adolescence in the home of his mother’s charismatic psy...

Ginger & Fred (1986) was one of Federico Fellini’s last films and was his last project with long-time collaborators Marcello Mastroianni and...

This exciting adaptation of Bizet’s 1875 opera Carmen sets the story of the free spirited gypsy in contemporary South Africa in the Khayelit...

Zachary Stein’s bar mitzvah is an epic production, a Titanic-themed extravaganza on a cruise ship culminating in a floorshow with icebergs,...

This exciting adaptation of Bizet’s 1875 opera Carmen sets the story of the free spirited gypsy in contemporary South Africa in the Khayelit...

Spelling bees are a particularly American phenomenon, an apparently equal opportunity contest rewarding Ben Franklin-style self-improvement...

This is one of those pretty good movies that get dumbed down in the trailer but then come as a nice surprise. Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica...

This is the sort of movie that gives romantic comedies a bad name. Look, we don't expect films like this to offer a razor-sharp analysis of...

One hundred years after her birth, Greta Garbo is both legendary and relatively unknown, her films eclipsed by gossip about her years of sec...

In a parched summer of reality TV, it seems hard to imagine television that could match finely worked dialogue and powerhouse performances w...

The opening scene is iconic: a man (director Luis Buñuel) bisects a woman's eye with a straight razor. The following 17 minutes pile on imag...

After 40-plus years of Cold War despair, the fall of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe seemed almost fantastical. When the wall came d...

Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) is a risk-averse insurance guy whose bride leaves him on their honeymoon for a freakishly buff French scuba inst...

We all know what we mean by "Bergman-esque": the silence, the intense close-ups, the dread and despair. The five films in this new box-set a...