| M [DVD] |
M is first and foremost about the time and place in which it is set: Berlin in the early 1930s, the last days of the Weimar Republic before the rise to power of the Nazi party. Social unease ...
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| M*A*S*H [Blu-Ray] |
Ahead of its time and still one of the most effectively subversive comedies ever to emerge from a major studio, it is of little surprise that there was some resistance in the upper ranks of 20th ...
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| M*A*S*H [DVD] |
One of director Robert Altman's favorite ways of describing how M*A*S*H got into theaters is, "It wasn't released from 20th Century Fox ... it ...
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| M. Hulot's Holiday (Les vacances de M. Hulot) [DVD] |
Jacques Tati's cinematic alter ego, Monsieur Hulot, is long-limbed and gangly, polite and
friendly, and a disaster waiting to happen. With his white pants pulled up about a foot too
high, giving the ...
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| Maîtresse [DVD] |
When the two men break into the apartment, they think they are entering the abode of an elderly woman who is on vacation in the south of France. Instead, they find a dungeon filled with all kinds of ...
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| Machete |
Give Rodriguez credit where credit is due: He can certainly assemble a cast. The title role of Machete, a Mexican federale-turned-man with no country after he is betrayed and his family ...
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| Machine Gun McCain (Gli intoccabili) [Blu-Ray] |
In one of the many acting gigs he took in order to finance his own independent films, Cassavetes stars as the titular criminal, who gets out of San Quentin after serving 12 years of a life sentence ...
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| Mad Max [DVD] |
George Miller’s Mad Max is a B-movie pushing the limits of its potential. You can sense what the filmmakers were trying for—a post-apocalyptic road rage epic—and you can almost picture ...
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| Madagascar [Blu-Ray] |
The story opens in a fantasy-world version of New York City’s Central Park Zoo, where the animals live in coddled contentment and act like diva superstars. At the center of it all--the ...
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| Made in U.S.A. [DVD] |
The irony is certainly thick, and it gives Made in U.S.A. an added veneer of interest and intrigue even if it isn’t one of Godard’s best films. Despite the fact that his films of this era ...
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| Madea Goes to Jail |
But, of course, that is what we have come to expect from a Tyler Perry movie (especially one featuring Madea), and in some sense we would be disappointed if he did otherwise. After all, there are ...
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| Madea's Family Renuion |
Without missing a beat, Perry has taken his newfound visibility and run with it, producing his second film, Madea's Family Reunion, less than a year later. Not only did Perry write the ...
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| Mafioso [DVD] |
Thus, the mafia, though spawned in Italy, has developed cinematically as a primarily American genre convention. Looking back over the history of Italian cinema, I was surprised to find that there ...
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| Magnificient Obsession [DVD] |
Magnificent Obsession was the first film to pair Jane Wyman, who was recently divorced from Ronald Reagan, and Rock Hudson, who was then a rising star (they would be paired again the next ...
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| Magnolia [DVD] |
Watching P.T. Anderson's "Magnolia" is like moving deep into the heart of a vertiginous spiral. "Magnolia" takes place over one day in Los Angeles and tells interlocking stories involving a dozen ...
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| Make Way for Tomorrow [DVD] |
Welles is right on all counts, as Make Way for Tomorrow is one of the saddest, most touching, and most powerfully introspective films produced during the classical era of Hollywood cinema, ...
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| Mamma Mia! |
Unfortunately, much like The Producers (2005), which was also helmed by a theater-trying-to-turn-film director, Mamma Mia! is a cinematic dud that is so haphazardly produced and ...
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| Mamma Roma [DVD] |
Anna Magnani, who had had her breakthrough role 16 years earlier in the neorealist classic Rome Open City (1945), cuts an indelible figure as the titular Momma Roma, a big-hearted, ...
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| Man Bites Dog (C'est arrivé près de chez vous) [DVD] |
Man Bites Dog (C'est arrivé près de chez vous) was destined for controversy. Everything about it elicits conflicting responses, so that even those who find it to be brilliantly ...
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| Man Hunt [DVD] |
Alas, the SS doesn’t see it that way when he is captured and taken before Major Quive-Smith (George Sanders), a refined Gestapo officer who tortures Thorndike and attempts to force him to sign a ...
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| Man of Aran [DVD] |
Robert Flaherty, who is widely regarded as being responsible for developing the feature documentary genre with his 1922 masterpiece Nanook of the North, spent two years of his life filming ...
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| Man on Fire [DVD] |
Scott has been on a fast track to this kind of stylistic overkill; his filmography is like a steady descent into the realm of the hyperkinetic, moving from jazzy, but smooth visual cool to ...
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| Man on the Moon |
The primary problem faced by filmmakers who attempt to make biopics of well-known celebrities is the impossibility of
capturing a person's essence in two hours of screen time. Biographers write ...
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| Man on Wire |
The film’s subject is the French aerialist Phillipe Petite’s daring 45-minute tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers on August 7, 1974. But, that is just the climax. Like any great ...
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| Mandingo |
The story takes place on a dilapidated Louisiana plantation run by crotchety old Warren Maxwell (James Mason) and his son, Hammond (Perry King). One day in New Orleans, Hammond comes across a slave ...
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| Marathon Man [DVD] |
Considering the impressive list of actors and filmmakers involved in making Marathon Man, it's a wonder that it didn't turn out to be a better movie. It was produced by Robert Evans, the ...
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| March of the Penguins |
The beauty and the charm of March of the Penguins is rooted deeply in the way we project ourselves onto thousands of emperor penguins, who live and breed against the odds in the harshest of ...
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| Maria Full of Grace |
Thus, when Maria agrees to be a “mule” for a local drug runner, which involves her swallowing 62 pellets of heroin and then flying to New York, it’s hard to blame her, especially since it will ...
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| Marie Antoinette |
Coppola uses this single, effective shot as a set-up, a small act of clever misdirection, because her lavishly mounted film paints an extremely sympathetic portrait of Marie as a misunderstood free ...
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| Marvin's Room |
The sisters are Bessie (Diane Keaton) and Lee (Meryl Streep). Twenty years ago, their father, Marvin (Hume Cronyn), had a stroke, and Bessie had to move to Florida to take care of him and her sick, ...
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| Masculin féminin [DVD] |
With Masculin féminin, he switched gears, focusing more intently on contemporary lived experience without a familiar genre les, which also led him into the realm of politics. Pre-Masculin ...
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| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
The unwieldiness of the title of Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World owes to the fact that it takes its high-seas adventure yarn from two of Patrick’s ...
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| Match Point |
Perhaps to shake up his own style, Allen sets the film in London, a first for him. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers stars as Chris Wilton, a boyishly handsome and slyly ambitious former professional tennis ...
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| Matchstick Men |
Nicholas Cage bought the rights to Eric Garcia’s novel Matchstick Men before it was even published, and it’s not hard to see why. The protagonist, a veteran con man with a laundry list of ...
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| Matewan |
Welcome to Matewan, a small, company-owned mining town in Mingo County, West Virginia, circa ...
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| Maximum Risk |
I find that annoying because nothing is farther from the truth. Just because a film is in the action genre, it does not have a license to be mediocre. You don't have to look any further than "The ...
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| Me, Myself & Irene |
Having already made "Dumb and Dumber" (1994), "Kingpin" (1996), and "There's Something About Mary" (1998), the over-the-top comedy ...
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| Mean Creek [DVD] |
Yet, Mean Creek still works and it still grips us and makes us think about the weight of consequence due largely to Estes’ fine scrip, naturalistic direction that is thankfully lacking in ...
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| Mean Girls [DVD] |
There is exactly such a scene in Mean Girls, a sharp comedy written by Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey, but it works because the rigidly stratified social caste system inhabited by ...
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| Medium Cool [DVD] |
"There is a basic principle that distinguishes a hot medium like radio from a cool one like the telephone, or a hot medium like the movie from a cool one like TV. A hot medium is one ...
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| Meet Joe Black [DVD] |
Considering that he is one of the most charismatic and appealing cinematic heartthrobs to come along in quite a while, Brad Pitt has spent much of his career building a resume of odd characters. ...
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| Meet the Feebles |
Peter Jackson's 1989 puppet satire, "Meet the Feebles," is such a film. Jackson, a native of New Zealand, is a filmmaker who has made his mark by pushing boundaries. Whether that be boundaries of ...
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| Meet the Fockers |
It's rich material for a comedy of manners, but unfortunately Meet the Fockers doesn't quite live up to its premise or its predecessor. Meet the Parents worked because, despite its ...
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| Meet the Parents [DVD] |
For Greg Focker (Ben Stiller), the earnest, put-upon hero of Meet the Parents,
absolutely nothing goes right from the very beginning. First of all, his attempt to propose to his girlfriend, ...
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| Melinda and Melinda |
Unfortunately, Allen has not been very good at taking his own advice, as it is hard for even his most fervent admirers to deny that the Woodman has been doing little but repeating himself for at ...
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| Memento |
In Memento, writer/director Christopher Nolan puts us directlyinto the experience of Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a man who is seekingvengeance for the rape and murder of his wife. Leonard's ...
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| Men in Black II |
The enormous success of 1997's Men in Black was due largely to its consistent ability to surprise us at every turn. An inventive comedy-thriller that made hash of paranoid conspiracy theories ...
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| Men in Black [Blu-Ray] |
Based on a fairly obscure Marvel comic book and written by Ed Solomon (who also scripted both Bill and Ted movies), Men in Black sets out to convince us that, for the last 50 years, ...
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| Men of Honor |
George Tillman, Jr.'s Men of Honor is an almost painfully earnest biopic aboutCarl Brashear, the son of a Kentucky sharecropper who fought his way through prejudiceand discrimination in the ...
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| Men With Guns |
The film takes place in an unnamed Central American country, where the men with guns are the rulers. Most of the country is divided into tiny segments -- some are controlled by guerrillas with guns, ...
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| Menace II Society |
One of the strengths of "Menace II Society" is its complexity, how it can be seen on several levels. At its simplest, it is a gangster film, falling in perfect step with one of Hollywood's favorite ...
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| Mercury Rising |
This central device is the fact that a nine-year-old boy is autistic. His name is Simon, and an evil government bureaucrat named Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) wants him dead because he unknowingly ...
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| Message in a Bottle |
Call it luck or call it fate, depending on your outlook. Fanciful romantics will probably find much to swoon about in "Message in a Bottle," which is based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas ...
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| Metallica: Some Kind of Monster [DVD] |
In 2001, as Metallica headed back into the studio to record their first album of all-new material in five years, they asked Berlinger and Sinofsky to film it, with the idea being that the footage ...
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| Metropolitan [DVD] |
This sensibility is best demonstrated in his debut film, Metropolitan, which was made on a shoestring budget of $200,000 and shot in Super 16mm. Its characters are all Manhattan college ...
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| Miami Vice |
Nevertheless, Mann is apparently embarrassed by the show’s pastel hues and pop-rock aesthetics, so when he set about making a feature-film version of the show, he did everything in his power to ...
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| Michael |
Obviously, this description paints a picture contrary to every theological concept of angels ever written, but that wasn't on the minds of Peter Dexter, Jim Quinlan, Nora Ephron and her sister, Delia ...
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| Michael Clayton |
Clayton is handed one of his biggest challenges when one of the law firm's top litigators, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkins), goes apparently mad during a deposition, taking off all his clothes and ...
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| Michael Collins |
After being a part of the defeated Easter Uprising of 1916 and spending two years in a British prison, Collins developed new methods to fight the British. In the process he created an army by ...
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| Mickey Blue Eyes |
Because the gangster genre is one of the most durable of the American cinema, over the years it has been satirized and lampooned from just about every possible angle. Whether that be turning a ...
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| Midnight Cowboy |
The hero of "Midnight Cowboy" is Joe Buck (Jon Voight), a slightly dim, but ambitious young man who leaves his job as a dishwasher in a small Texas town to be a hustler in New York. After putting on ...
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| Midnight Express [Blu-Ray] |
The film opens with a brilliant sequence of sustained tension in which Billy, portrayed with great physical conviction by then-unknown television actor Brad Davis, straps the drugs around his ...
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| Mighty Joe Young |
The premise of the film is that Joe, the lovable gorilla of the title who happens to have a bad case of gigantism, has grown up in the secluded African wilderness with a woman named Jill Young ...
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| Milk |
That moment begins when Milk (Sean Penn) meets Scott Smith (James Franco), a man 20 years his junior, in a subway station in New York City, where Milk is a closeted Wall Street researcher. After ...
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| Million Dollar Baby |
The story takes place in the world of boxing, although it cannot be said that the film is in any way about boxing. Eastwood casts himself as Frankie Dunn, an aging trainer and cut man who is on his ...
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| Millions |
From this simple description, Millions sounds like a basic altruism vs. materialism exercise in cinematic preachiness, but part of the film's fundamental magic is the way it both engages and ...
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| Mimic |
But now that the threat of atomic war has passed, and we don't think twice about nuclear power plants, a new kind of scientific meddling had to be created. This void was, of course, filled with ...
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| Mindhunters |
And this is where Harlin thrives. More so than any other action director, Harlin is able to take mediocre and often outlandishly stupid scripts and punch them up into endlessly watchable ...
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| Minority Report |
As they are arguably the most internationally successful director and male star of the second half of the 20th century, it was only a matter of time before Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise made a ...
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| Miracle at St. Anna |
However, righting the underrepresentation of African Americans in Hollywood films about the Great War (the most recent being Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo ...
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| Miracle on 34th Street [DVD] |
The story centers around an elderly man (Edmund Gwenn) who not only looks a lot like Santa Claus, but claims quite proudly and unabashedly to be the one and only Kris Kringle. Through a series of ...
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| MirrorMask [Blu-Ray] |
The film’s skeletal narrative frame was concocted by McKean and Sandman creator Neil Gaiman, who wrote the screenplay. It begins with an amusing reversal of the old childhood threat about ...
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| Mischief [DVD] |
The film begins with a jokey play on Star Wars’ opening pronouncement that the story is taking place “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away …” which in this case is Ohio, 1956. ...
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| Misery [DVD] |
Then the bottom started to drop out of the relationship. Perhaps Hollywood and King were seeing too much of each other, but their collaborative projects started falling rapidly in quality. John ...
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| Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters [DVD] |
Yet, even with those seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Schrader was, in fact, the perfect person--at least, the perfect Westerner--to direct a film about Mishima. He had several strong connections ...
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| Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) [DVD] |
The title character of Miss Julie is played by Anita Björk with a consuming passion that is constantly bursting from the seams of her repressive social status as one of the wealthy elite. ...
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| Missing [DVD] |
And what a debut it was. Few studio-produced films with A-list stars cause the U.S. State Department to write three-page written responses, but that is precisely what happened two days before ...
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| Mission to Mars |
When Pauline Kael wrote her ecstatic, glowing reviews of Brian De Palma's films in the 1970s and early 1980s, she always focused on De Palma's twisted sense of humor as both his greatest asset as a ...
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| Mission: Impossible 2 [DVD] |
There is little doubt during any moment of "Mission: Impossible 2" that this is a John Woo film. Woo's signature visual ballistics and predilection for highly wrought melodrama of the kind Douglas ...
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| Mission: Impossible III [DVD] |
The first two Mission: Impossible movies were both well-mounted displays of their respective director’s virtuoso talents (Brian De Palma’s penchant for insanely intricate scenarios ...
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| Mission: Impossible [DVD] |
For whatever reason, in the mid- to late 1990s the big idea was to remake cultish 1960s-era television shows into big-budget movie spectacles. Starting with the surprise comic hit The Addams ...
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| Mommie Dearest [DVD] |
In 1978, one year after the death of silver-screen star Joan Crawford, one of her four adopted children, Christina Crawford, published Mommie Dearest, a tell-all personal memoir that ended up ...
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| Mon oncle Antoine [DVD] |
The protagonist is Benoit (Jacques Gagnon), a 15-year-old orphan who has been taken in by his Uncle Antoine (Jean Duceppe) and Aunt Cecile (OlivetteThibault). Antoine owns the general store in a ...
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| Mon Oncle [DVD] |
Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle is visually structured around two disparate sections of
Paris, which Tati uses to illustrate his contempt for what he saw as the increasingly sterile
and lifeless ...
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| Mondo Cane |
The film itself is nothing more than a hodge-podge of unrelated scenes shot all over the globe, which are intended to give the viewer a taste of parts of the world "where no camera has gone before," ...
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| Mondo Trasho |
Basically an hour and a half of amateurly produced celluloid garbage, this movie is memorable only as the first serious outing of one of America's most provocative, fiery, satirical, and ultimately ...
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| Monkeybone [DVD] |
In Monkeybone, Brendan Fraser plays Stu Miley, the mild-mannered creator of a
cartoon nightmare knows as Monkeybone. Taking the form of a small, grinning simian with
lanky arms and legs and a ...
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| Monsoon Wedding [DVD] |
The wedding that is about to take place is between Aditi (Indian pop star Vasundhara Das) and Hemant (Parvin Dabas). As is the custom, it is an arranged marriage. Aditi lives with her ...
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| Monster |
Like last year’s Dahmer, Patty Jenkins’ Monster is a daring film that attempts to find the humanity in a notorious serial killer. In this case, the film searches beneath the ...
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| Monster House |
A decaying, ramshackle monstrosity surrounded by quaint suburban blandness, the “monster house” of the title anthropomorphizes into a two-story beastie with a hideous, wicked grin filled with ...
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| Monster-in-Law |
It’s been 15 years since Jane Fonda has starred in a movie, and Monster-in-Law was an interesting choice to mark her return (although the cynic in me is screaming “Commercial!” and ...
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| Monsters vs. Aliens |
The story begins with Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon), whose should-be-glorious wedding day is ruined by a stray meteor that first causes her to glow green and then to grow 50 stories tall, ...
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| Monsters, Inc. [Blu-Ray] |
In Monsters, Inc., Pixar Studios’ fourth feature after Toy Story (1995), A Bug’s Life (1998), and Toy Story 2 (1999), Larson’s joke is taken to the next level, ...
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| Monterey Pop [DVD] |
The three-day festival, which took place at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in northern California, was filmed by documentarian D.A. Pennebaker, who was initially hired with the idea that his ...
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| Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" actually holds true on both counts. For those who have never seen Monty Python before, their style of comedy might take a while to get accustomed to. The six ...
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| Moon |
When we first meet him, Sam is ragged-looking and clearly feeling the effects of more than 1,000 days of being a million miles from all human contact except for recorded messages sent to him by his ...
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| Moonlight Mile |
For a film that is about the grieving process in the aftermath of an unexpected death, Moonlight Mile is oddly unaffecting. It is certainly a genuine film, one that strives very hard to ...
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| Moonlight Whispers (Gekko no sasayaki) |
Akihiko Shiota's directorial debut, Moonlight Whispers (Gekko nosasayaki) starts off like it is going to be about a typical teenage romance. The twoleads, Hidaka (Kenji Mizuhashi) and ...
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| Mouchette [DVD] |
However, there is always a danger when a filmmaker like Bresson sticks so closely to a chosen theme, especially when said theme is intricately coupled with a particular aesthetic. The danger is that ...
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| Moulin Rouge |
In Moulin Rouge, director Baz Luhrmann has finally found a form that is fitting tohis uncompromisingly bombastic style. His previous two films, the independent Australianhit Strictly ...
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| Mr. & Mrs. Smith |
The film has twin goals: to blow up as much stuff as possible and to ensure that Pitt and Jolie look as good as possible amid the chaos. The plot allows them to put their model good looks to use in ...
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| Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report) [DVD] |
In many ways, Mr. Arkadin revisits the same themes as Citizen Kane (1941), centering as it does on the mysterious life of a powerful, wealthy, and elusive man. The ultimate ...
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| Mr. Bean's Holiday [DVD] |
Yet, there is an important distinction between the two screen clowns, and it's not the obvious fact that one is French and the other is British. No, the difference is one of tone. Hulot is an ...
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| Mr. Brooks |
The eponymous antihero, played with convincingly cold conviction by Kevin Costner (who also coproduced the film), is an upright husband, father, and successful businessman--so successful, in fact, ...
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| Mr. Deeds |
Woe to poor Adam Sandler. Stuck in what appears to be a cinematic perpetual motion machine, he continues to show up year after year in dim-witted comedies organized around his increasingly unfunny ...
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| Mr. Rice's Secret |
Mr. Rice's Secret is a children's film about dealing with death. There are not manyfilms aimed at kids that deal with this topic because, in Western society at least, we feel theneed to ...
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| Mulan |
"Mulan" is the re-telling of an ancient Chinese fable about the titular girl (voiced by Ming-Na Wen when speaking, and Lea Salonga when singing), who impersonates a man in order to take her father's ...
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| Mulholland Drive |
"What can you say about a movie that doesn't make sense?" I asked five years ago in my review of David Lynch's Lost Highway (1996), a film that, indeed, makes no sense. At the time, I was not ...
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| Mumford |
In "Mumford," writer/director Lawrence Kasdan puts on his display his greatest asset: his ability to create vivid, eccentric, andutterly likable characters. ...
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| Munich |
Based on George Jonas’s 1984 book Vengeance, which also served as the source for the 1986 made-for-TV movie Sword of Gideon, Munich tells the semi-fictionalized story of how ...
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| Murder by Numbers |
Never as disturbing or evocative as it would like to be, Murder by Numbers plods through its psychological murder-mystery trappings like well-worn clothes, and the edges are definitely ...
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| Murmur of the Heart (Le souffle au coeur) [DVD] |
With the possible exception of 1987’s Au revoir les enfants, Murmur of the Heart, Malle's 1971 coming-of-age comedy/drama, is the best example of this cinematic philosophy. Although ...
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| Music of the Heart |
It is both ironic and unfortunate that "Music of the Heart," a film about awoman who teaches children the value of beautiful music, begins with a popsong by Gloria Estefan and N'Sync that is so ...
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| Mutant (aka Night Shadows) [DVD] |
Mutant is a mutant itself, a cross-bred horror film that is moderately successful in
mixing some of the most overworked genres of the '70s and '80s, including redneck thrillers,
the zombie ...
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| My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
The end of the summer 2002 movie season is here, with the studios having taken in some $3.3 billion. There were plenty of big-budget blockbusters that pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars at ...
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| My Bloody Valentine 3-D |
However, despite never getting a sequel, My Bloody Valentine has now joined the ranks of ’70s and ’80s horror titles to get the big(ger)-budget remake treatment. Perhaps because the ...
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| My Dinner With Andre [DVD] |
The two men at dinner are Wally and Andre, who are played by the two men who wrote the screenplay that was based on hours and hours of their own tape-recorded conversations: playwright and actor ...
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| My Kid Could Paint That [DVD] |
Such is the case with Amir Bar-Lev’s startling and insightfully provocative documentary My Kid Could Paint That, which began as a portrait of a 4-year-old art prodigy and turned into an ...
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| My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) [DVD] |
Coming-of-age stories are always tricky, bordering as they do on triviality and tunnel-vision melodrama, which is what makes Lasse Hallström’s My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv son hund) ...
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| My Man Godfrey [DVD] |
The screwball comedy genre emerged out of the thralls of the Great Depression in the 1930s as an antidote for those who were down on their luck. It gave them a chance to disappear into a darkened ...
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| My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) [DVD] |
Unlike his first two “Moral Tales,” The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1962) and Suzanne’s Career (1963), both of which were short films, there is very little voice-over narration in ...
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| My Own Private Idaho [DVD] |
For his third feature film, writer/director Gus Van Sant was finally able to bring to the screen a story he had been trying to tell for years about Portland street hustlers. His critical and ...
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| My Summer of Love |
Their summer together turns into a fever dream of sorts, and Pawel Pavlikovsky's My Summer of Love is at its best when it is focused intently on the burgeoning emotional intensity between ...
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| Mystery Train [DVD] |
Like Jarmusch’s previous features, particularly his 1984 breakthrough Stranger Than Paradise, Mystery Train is a droll, dark comedy about strangers in a strange land, which Jarmusch ...
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| Mystic River |
Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River has all the emotional resonance and narrative contrivance of a Shakespearean tragedy, except it’s set in a working-class Irish-Catholic neighborhood in ...
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