Boyhood: The Moment Seizes You
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Point Blank: A Dream of Full-Color Noir
A crime-cinema masterpiece whose influence can be seen in such later touchstones as Mean Streets and Reservoir Dogs, this highly stylized portrait of a gangster subordinates the needs of plot to director John Boorman’s saturated aesthetic.
Trouble in Paradise: Pure Style
One of Ernst Lubitsch’s favorites among his own films, this delightful pre-Code whodunit exemplifies the director’s signature European worldliness and his ingenious way of drawing viewers in as if they were coconspirators.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian: The Wrong Messiah
The legendary comedy troupe’s most fully realized film is a hilarious Biblical parody with a streak of overwhelming horror and outrage running through it.
The Blade: Cutting Deep
Violently nihilistic, simultaneously energizing and crushing, Tsui Hark’s remake of the martial-arts classic One-Armed Swordsman captures the zeitgeist of pre–1997 handover Hong Kong.