Portrait of a Lady on Fire profoundly understands the raw emotional power of human memory, especially when our recollections stem from the innermost depths of our heart and soul.

Drop Dead Fred effectively shows us what imaginary friends represent.

Polyester stands firmly as a gateway between the gross-out films of Waters' past and the soft-hearted sentimentalist ones that were to come.

Antigone affirms the timelessness of its subject matter, breaking down Greek tragedy and finding that it retains all of its power even under minute analysis.

If profanity-laced morality plays full of tobacco usage, mafia hit men firing out of helicopters and a swaggering De Niro is the sort of thing one is seeking in a film, Midnight Run will always be there.

Anderson’s movies are so infinitely re-watchable.

A melodrama at face value, The Cloud-Capped Star explores the deep fissures in Indian society perpetrated by the partition, especially on women.

A rollicking ‘50s urban-outlaw throwback movie which underplays the societal friction angle in favor of a heady atmosphere of romantic longing.

A personal and surprisingly poignant take on the infamous true crime story that inspired Psycho, playing like a backwoods Kentucky variation.

In Bamboozled, there is no equivalent to this safe space of "blackness."