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A great film is one that can take even the most jaded of moviegoers and fill them with a sense of anticipation, wonder and sheer exhilaration. Cynicism falls away as they witness all the different creative...

Released in 1983, at roughly the halfway point of the artistic partnership director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that lasted more than four decades, “Heat and Dust” is now seen as...

With the summer movie season ending with a box office whimper (looking at you, “The Hitman’s Bodyguard”), it’s time that we start getting excited about the fall. September through December promises to be its own blockbuster...

If I could only show one franchise to people to explain the cinematic potential of video games it would be Sony and Naughty Dog’s “Uncharted” series. “Bioshock,” “The Witcher,” and “Mass Effect” would be high on...

American horror iconoclast Tobe Hooper’s best films spoke to his weird, bitter sense of humor. Hooper would try, in a handful of post-“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” efforts, to confirm what many fans of that earlier film already knew about that darkly...

The conventional wisdom regarding Tobe Hooper, who passed away yesterday at the age of 74, is that he was a filmmaker who created an undeniable classic right out of the gate but failed to live up...

While “The Terminator” was a great horror film, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” is a great action film. While “The Terminator” was about the horror of an unstoppable harbinger of a technologically-advanced but soul-dead present, “Terminator 2” is, like so...

IN HONOR OF WERNER HERZOG’S 75th BIRTHDAY ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th, the University of Chicago Press is publishing Herzog by Ebert, an invaluable compilation of the late critic’s reviews and essays about one of his favorite...

“All Saints” feels like a bit of a miracle. It’s a faith-based movie inspired by a true story that lets its dramatic moments unfold without relying on melodrama. And while its characters speak frequently of the...

The emotional and visual power of dance is so great that even a mediocre film can stoke our affection merely by showing it. The mediocre film in question is “Leap!,” the title of which will henceforth...