The film is not merely the first of a kind but a true original, occasionally imitated but never matched.

A feminist landmark and a powerful study of transformation and identity.

It epitomizes how Bresson used action to achieve spiritual deliverance in his films.

Haneke reminds us that the purest love means knowing when to let go.

Powell and Pressburger search for a place between the extremes of chastity and pruriency.

No other Hitchcock film amasses a series of otherwise unconnected ideas and ties them together so creatively.

The phantasmagoric outpouring of a singular artist whose voice cannot be easily categorized

The sort of film that works on the surface and beneath it, inviting both closer examination and zealous cult viewership.

Ida Lupino’s critique of society’s need to maintain traditional gender roles and institutional normalcy, even if it means the loss of individuality.