Oppenheimer: Destroyer of Worlds

Cillian Murphy. Photo: Universal There’s a sex scene in this film that generated negative buzz, where Oppenheimer’s girlfriend tells him to read a Sanskrit passage aloud while she’s riding him.…

Creed III

A now retired Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) meets an old friend (Jonathan Majors) who’s out of prison and feels an obligation to help him, little realizing that he’s being…

Elephant Man: A Victorian Sensation

John Hurt. Photo: Brooksfilms In 1979, John Hurt terrified a whole world in the sci-fi-horror movie Alien, in a sequence that required a lot of special makeup effects. One year…

Citizen Kane: Billionaire and Enigma

Orson Welles. Photo: RKO When Sight and Sound recently polled critics all over the world for another list of greatest films, there were dramatic changes. Jeanne Dielman (1975) came out…

Lion in Winter: A Plantagenet Power Struggle

Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Photo: Embassy Pictures You may barely remember Henry II from history class, but in the 1960s the Medieval king was hot stuff. Peter O’Toole played…

The Rider

After an accident, once-promising rodeo rider Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau) suffers from a brain damage and is warned against riding… but it’s his whole life. Chloé Zhao followed her debut…

Midnight Cowboy: A Buck in New York

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: United Artists When John Schlesinger went to Hollywood in the late 1960s, he had already made a career for himself as a thoroughly British…

That Time of Year

A family gathers for Christmas, but disruption comes in the shape of a sister with a dark past who shows up with a new guy and a stepdaughter. A chaotic…

Ivan’s Childhood: Dreams of Mother

Nikolai Burlyayev. Photo: Mosfilm Sometimes you wonder whatever happened to a successful child actor. In far too many cases, their lives didn’t turn out so great, perhaps haunted by what…

All Quiet on the Western Front

In 1917, four German school boys enthusiastically join the army and are sent to northern France where hell awaits them; at the same time, Matthias Erzberger (Daniel Brühl) is headed…