Jules Dassin’s prison-break film offers a potent metaphor for how Americans must fight against fascist tyrants to preserve their freedom and humanity.

Gillo Pontecorvo’s landmark 1966 feature is political and anticolonial filmmaking at its best. 

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

Stanley Kubrick’s most psychologically complex and debated work is now available on UHD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.

Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant exude charm in this funny, romantic, and ceaselessly entertaining Hitchcockian thriller.

Neil Jordan’s 1994 vampire classic remains a layered and lavish drama about outsiders and forbidden desires.

It’s one of the best musicals ever made and remains a chilling reminder of how apathy can enable the rise of authoritarianism.

Rob Reiner’s mockumentary remains one of the all-time funniest movies ever made.

A timeless work of art and entertainment, vital for historical study, but perhaps more essentially, urgently watchable and accessible more than a century later.