Directed by Tony Gilroy • 2007 • United States
Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton

Attorney Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a fixer, the go-to guy when his powerful New York law firm wants a mess swept under the rug. But now he’s handed a crisis even he may not be able to f...

Directed by Oliver Stone • 1987 • United States
Starring Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen

The ultimate portrait of ’80s corporate excess, Oliver Stone’s hard-hitting, brilliantly entertaining look at the moral emptiness behind the era’s “greed is good” mentality features an iconicall...

Directed by Jacques Tourneur • 1947 • United States
Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas

Everything you want in a film noir you’ll find in OUT OF THE PAST: a tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good, a drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good, and a m...

Directed by Taylor Hackford • 1997 • United States
Starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron

A diabolical performance from Al Pacino lights up this operatically over-the-top legal thriller with a supernatural twist. He’s John Milton, the most powerful and feared attorney in New York City...

Directed by Tom Tykwer • 2009 • United States, Germany
Starring Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl

A high-stakes game of suspense, intrigue, and explosive action plays out against a succession of striking international locales from Milan to New York to Istanbul in this globe-trotting c...

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With his ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster (Jackson Yee) embarks on a...

Directed by William Friedkin • 1985 • United States
Starring William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow

William Friedkin’s kinetic neonoir takes the ’80s action thriller to new heights of hyperstylized excess. Federal agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) has a score to settle as he vows to t...

Directed by John Sturges • 1955 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis

Ace genre craftsman John Sturges directs Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan in this taut western noir. Tracy is the one-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy, who arrives in the remote desert outpost of Bla...

Directed by Paul Verhoeven • 1987 • United States
Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herilhy

Called by Ken Russell “the greatest science-fiction film since METROPOLIS,” ROBOCOP is a special effects-laden cult phenomenon. Directed by controversial filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, the film feature...

Criterion Collection Edition #608

With the idiosyncratic American fable HAROLD AND MAUDE, countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era. Working from a script by Colin Higgins, Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-o...

Directed by Peter Howitt • 2001 • United States
Starring Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tim Robbins

In this slick Y2K-era technothriller, Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe) thinks he’s found his dream job when he’s hired by Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), the CEO of the world’s largest computer comp...

Directed by Alex Ross Perry • 2025 • United States

Cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread: the video-rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies. With narration by Maya Hawke and footage culled from hundreds of sources—from TV commercials to blockbuster fi...

Directed by David Lynch • 1980 • United
Starring John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft

David Lynch brings his eye for the uncanny to this sensitive retelling of the life of John Merrick (John Hurt), a Victorian-era British man whose severe facial deformities made him a social outcast, but ...

Directed by André Bonzel • 2021 • France

An epic, lyrical ode to amateur filmmakers who raise the quotidian to the highest levels of art, FLICKERING GHOSTS OF LOVES GONE BY is a personal and historical exploration of the home movie in all its unvarnished glory. Upon inheriting an enormous collec...

Directed by James Merendino • 1998 • United States
Starring Matthew Lillard, Michael A. Goorjian, Annabeth Gish

It’s 1985 and Stevo (Matthew Lillard) is that rare animal: a punk rocker in the Mormon stronghold of Salt Lake City, Utah. Though he’s just graduated from college with honors, his life...

Directed by Quentin Tarantino • 2007 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson

Quentin Tarantino pays homage to the glory days of grindhouse cinema with this retro, gleefully subversive schlock shocker. Kurt Russell plays the psychotic movie stunt double Stuntman Mike, who ...

Directed by Man Ray • 2023 • France

The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts—LE RETOUR À LA RAISON, EMAK BAKIA, L’...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1993 • United States
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder

No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted the work of another great New York artist, Edith Whar...

Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack • 1933 • United States
Starring Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot

The grandaddy of all monster movies remains one of the screen’s most awe-inspiring achievements: a landmark in both special effects and modern mythmaking. Original scream...

Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1991 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Robin Williams

A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality, Terry Gilliam’s magnificent, Manhattan-set THE FISHER KING features Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in two of their most brilliant roles. Bridges play...

Directed by Fred Zinnemann • 1952 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell

Gary Cooper stars in this real-time western as a sheriff looking forward to retirement and marriage whose plans are upended by the news that a gang of outlaws are on their way to gun him down. Th...

Directed by Mary Bronstein • 2008 • United States
Starring Greta Gerwig, Mary Bronstein, Amy Judd

A defiantly lo-fi, ripe-for-rediscovery transmission from the early-aughts microbudget boom, Mary Bronstein’s rawer-than-raw portrait of toxic friendship traces the emotional fallout that follows a ...

Directed by Charlie Kaufman • 2025 • United States, Greece
Starring Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki

Part ghost story, part city symphony, this elegiac short directed by Charlie Kaufman traces the meeting of two recently deceased young people—a troubled photographer (Jessie Buckley) and a gay transla...

Directed by Gus Van Sant • 1989 • United States
Starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Remar

Gus Van Sant’s dreamy, drifty, deadpan second feature—an addiction drama based on James Fogle’s autobiographical novel—captures the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix ...