David Cronenberg’s mindbender is the best movie ever made about video games.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s post-apocalyptic meditation on faith is one of cinema’s most mysterious, transfixing films.

A film about the resilience of children and the power of cinema.

Fritz Lang’s 1931 masterpiece remains an urgent critique of groupthink and mob mentalities.

Bertrand Bonello sets a frighteningly beautiful minefield for his audience to navigate.

Pedro Almodóvar’s celebration of women is as layered as its characters.

Jia Zhangke’s terrific debut film marked the arrival of a distinct artist working on the margins of Chinese cinema.

Kurosawa’s late-career epic believes in the potential for imitation to have real meaning.

To watch the film is to experience how depressives register the pain of existence and may even look to The End with a blissful, gracious heart.