The Inventory

For a kinder, gentler take on A Star Is Born, try Judy Garland’s Easter Parade

For a subtler tale of friendship on the road, let Green Book guide you to The End Of The Tour

Guillermo del Toro built his own blockbuster around the steely cool of a black Marvel superhero

Love Roma? Then check out this gorgeous triptych from a kindred spirit of Alfonso Cuarón

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

There are glimmers of BlacKkKlansman’s fire in an earlier Best Picture winner about American hate

Decades before Vice, another political dramedy examined the business of politics

Jesse Hassenger

There’s way more bohemian rhapsody in this earlier biopic of a stylish queer icon

Lawrence Garcia

Sliding Doors split life in two for Gwyneth Paltrow

Mulan’s gender politics haven’t aged so gracefully

Bulworth’s politics remain timely, even if Warren Beatty’s awful rapping doesn’t

Blacula blew some fresh air into a musty genre crypt

James Brown soundtracks one of blaxploitation's most cynical films

The Mack remains one of blaxploitation’s most artistically ambitious films

The original Super Fly is more than a blaxploitation time capsule with a killer soundtrack

Don’t Look Now’s ending still shocks, even if its famous sex scene doesn’t

Pontypool puts a wicked intellectual twist on a horror trope

Reality turns into nightmare in the underappreciated horror classic Jacob’s Ladder

The unclassifiable Kill List is an unsettling odyssey to the dark side

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Chow Yun-fat rose to stardom as a scene-stealing rogue in an early John Woo classic

You don't get a bead on Drug War's snitch until the electrifying final shootout

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