American Gigolo represents an important bridge between the anything-goes ethos of the ’70s and the style-over-subs...

          There are some deeply flawed movies whose intentions I admire so much that I view the pictures more favorably than I...

          Director Sydney Pollack took a lot of critical flack for shoehorning love stories into movies that couldn’t organica...

Old Boyfriends is a painfully dull movie made by a number of people who should have known better. Screenwriting brothers Leon...

          Director Brian De Palma borrowed heavily from Alfred Hitchcock’s filmmaking style for Sisters (1973), a perverse st...

          Based one of the many violent scripts Paul Schrader penned during his breakthrough period (Heywood Gould rewrote the screenpl...

          After making his name with the incendiary screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976), Paul Schrader capitalized on his Hollywood heat...

          “Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.” That snippet of voiceover, an excerpt from the apocalypti...

          Steven Spielberg’s second career-defining megahit in a row, following 1975’s Jaws , is in some ways an even more extraordin...