Golden Door

Emanuele Crialese, 2006, 120 minutes

Sensitive and moving.

Red Dust

Victor Fleming, 1932, 83 minutes

All Harlow. 

Seven Beauties

Lina Wertmüller, 1975, 115 minutes

Hilarious and harrowing.

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa, 1980, 180 minutes

Exquisite.

Il Posto

Ermanno Olmi, 1961, 93 minutes

Skillfully observed.

EO

Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022, 88 minutes

Bursts the cramped limits of contemporary filmmaking.

Armageddon Time

James Gray, 2022, 115 minutes

Powerful and honest.

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

Mary Wharton, 2020, 95 minutes

Exploits an interesting niche.

Living with Lincoln

Peter W. Kunhardt and Brian Oakes, 2015, 68 minutes

Family drama effectively wrapped into Lincolniana.

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa, 1952, 143 minutes

Layers of meaning.

The Big Heat

Fritz Lang, 1953, 90 minutes

Tougher than usual fare for this period.

Navalny

Daniel Roher, 2022, 98 minutes

Arresting.

All That Breathes

Shaunak Sen, 2022, 91 minutes

Affecting and visually imaginative.

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti, 1963, 185 minutes

An almost unbearable richness.

Vengeance

B.J. Novak, 2022, 107 minutes

Uneven fish-out-of-water.

The Woman in the Window

Fritz Lang, 1944, 99 minutes

Tense and twisty.

The Velvet Queen

Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier, 2021, 92 minutes

Stupendous beauty and depth.

Man Hunt

Fritz Lang, 1941, 105 minutes

Stylish and humane.

Black Sunday

John Frankenheimer, 1977, 143 minutes

Good last hour.

Oldboy

Park Chan-wook, 2003, 120 minutes

Invigorating blend of genres.

Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone, 1968, 166 minutes

Operatic and epic.

El Topo

Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970, 124 minutes

Spectacle.