How fitting that David Fincher’s best film is about obsession

In Jules Dassin’s essential film noir, Richard Widmark plays a hustler whose time has run out.

Kurt Russell plays an iconic, cynical antihero in John Carpenter’s cult actioner.

Carol Reed’s fatalistic thriller starring James Mason asks us to examine our apathy toward others.

Audiences in the 1940s found Preston Sturges’ macabre comedy in poor taste; today, it’s a different story.

Werner Herzog’s epic is among his greatest of many films about a holy fool on a doomed personal mission.

A landmark of autofictional filmmaking from Italian master Federico Fellini.

Federico Fellini’s film about a beauty and a beast.

A haunting cinematic experience steeped in sublime sights, smells, and narrative turns.