99 Homes
Dir. Ramin Bahrani
Andrew Garfield is a single father living with his own single mother in their family home. In the aftermath of…
A Dry White Season
Dir. Euzhan Palcy
Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) is a patriarch of an upper-class white family insulated from the roiling protests and violence…
Running on Empty
Dir. Sidney Lumet
Running on Empty is a movie that covers many timely themes including capitalism, education, and social class. It tells the…
Hear My Song
Dir. Peter Chelsom
There are some people that would do everything for love, they would do everything just to make their lovers happy.…
Shattered Glass
Dir. Billy Ray
Shattered Glass tells the unbelievably true story of Stephen Glass, a popular and promising young journalist at The New Republic.…
Barton Fink
Dir. Joel Coen
Barton Fink is remarkable for many reasons, the most immediate of which is its style. Fink’s Hollywood, contrary to most…
A Simple Plan
Dir. Sam Raimi
A Simple Plan, directed by Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) is a psychological thriller that follows two brothers and…
Stand and Deliver
Dir. Ramón Menéndez
Education isn’t always a guarantee, especially in less privileged areas that are underfunded, overlooked, and underprioritized, in the belief that…
Quiz Show
Dir. Robert Redford
Long before we became accustomed to oxymorons like “scripted reality” shows, there was a time when viewers could expect to…
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Dir. Andrew Dominik
Robert Ford is an aspiring gangster who idolizes Jesse James, leader of the notorious James gang. When that admiration reaches…
Rushmore
Dir. Wes Anderson
If it weren’t for his knack for writing, Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) would never have gotten into a prep school…
Belfast
Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Belfast stars Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as the mother of a working-class Northern Irish family during The Troubles. Religious tension and…
Hoosiers
Dir. David Anspaugh
Bearing pretty much every trademark you’ve come to expect from a sports drama, Hoosiers might not bring as many surprises…
Doubt
Dir. John Patrick Shanley
The 2008 film Doubt offers a haunting peek into the crisis of pedophilia within the Catholic church. Featuring an all-star…
Under Fire
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
The Messenger
Dir. Oren Moverman
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification…
Runaway Train
Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find…
The Cooler
Dir. Wayne Kramer
Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around…
Shadow of the Vampire
Dir. E. Elias Merhige
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film “Nosferatu.”
A Soldier’s Story
Dir. Norman Jewison
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army…
Do the Right Thing
Dir. Spike Lee
Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when…
Full Metal Jacket
Dir. Stanley Kubrick
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot…
Call Me by Your Name
Dir. Luca Guadagnino
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family’s villa in Italy. One day Oliver,…
Michael Clayton
Dir. Tony Gilroy
A law firm brings in its “fixer” to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a…
Charlie Wilson’s War
Dir. Mike Nichols
A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan…
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Dir. Anthony Minghella
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.…
In the Line of Fire
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection…
Road to Perdition
Dir. Sam Mendes
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however…
Bridge of Spies
Dir. Steven Spielberg
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane.…
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Dir. Quentin Tarantino
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill…