A New Orleans-based heist thriller with a political conscience, owing as much to "Chinatown" as "Set it Off."
The list of interviewees makes it worth seeing: besides critics, historians, and the current head of the MPAA, we hear from big-name pioneers in mainstream nudity, including Malcolm McDowell, Pam Grier, and Silvia Miles, and performers who had one foot in the mainstream and another in exploitation/porn, such as Sybil Danning and Traci Lords.
A heartfelt, often eerily powerful meditation on Jewish identity, wrapped up in a lot of mediocre foolishness.
The latest in our series on overlooked films centers on an early work by Michael Almereyda.
A conventional but thoughtfully edited documentary about the rebuilding of a town destroyed by fire.
Goodness in movie form.
A film wearing shoes that are too big for it.
A poignant and powerful film about the destruction of the Bronx in the 1970s, which was blamed on its own residents.