Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven is two different films. The theatrical cut is a confused 144-minute medieval action movie that critics dismissed and audiences ignored.
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1940sSergeant York (1941)
Sergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.
2010sBlack Death (2010)
Black Death is a small British medieval horror film that wants to be a serious meditation on faith and plague and mostly succeeds. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a knight commissioned by the church to investigate a village in the marshes…
1950sThe Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Horse Soldiers is John Ford's only Civil War film and one of his weaker collaborations with John Wayne. Wayne plays Colonel John Marlowe, a Union.
1990sRide with the Devil (1999)
Ride with the Devil is Ang Lee's overlooked Civil War film. Tobey Maguire plays Jake Roedel, the son of a German immigrant in western Missouri who joins a Confederate guerrilla band more out of loyalty to his friends than out…
1950sThe Red Badge of Courage (1951)
The studio, MGM, cut the film roughly in half after disastrous preview screenings. Lillian Ross's book Picture, a long-form New Yorker series about the making of the film, has become more famous than the film itself.
1950sThe Raid (1954)
Van Heflin plays Major Neal Benton, a Confederate officer who has escaped from a Union prison camp at Plattsburgh and is plotting a raid on St. Albans, Vermont with five fellow escapees. The historical event is real.
2010sZero Dark Thirty (2012) Review
Zero Dark Thirty is one of the best American thrillers of the past fifteen years and one of the most controversial mainstream films of the post-2001 period.
1950s12 Angry Men (1957) and 12 Angry Men (1997) Review
The film runs ninety-six minutes and takes place almost entirely in a single jury room.
2010sMorgan (2016) Review
Morgan is the film Luke Scott made instead of inheriting his father's career on better terms. It also deserved less than the marketing implied.
1960sThe Birds (1963) Review
The Birds is one of Alfred Hitchcock's great achievements and one of the most influential horror productions in American cinema history. The British-born filmmaker had produced substantial work in both British and American cinema across multiple decades.
AmbiguityCat People (1942 / 1982), Contrast Review
Cat People is one of the most influential psychological horror properties in American cinema history. The 1942 RKO production directed by Jacques Tourneur.