Hard Times

Walter Hill, 1975, 93 minutes

Solid debut.

Resistance

Jonathan Jakubowicz, 2020, 120 minutes

Several scenes of effective suspense.

47 Ronin

Kon Ichikawa, 1994, 132 minutes

Specialist interest only.

Drive My Car

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021, 179 minutes

Austere and affecting.

Midnight Movies

Stuart Samuels, 2005, 88 minutes

Requiem for a lost cultural world.

Shirin

Abbas Kiarostami, 2008, 92 minutes

Entrancing.

Hope Gap

William Nicholson, 2019, 100 minutes

Sensitive, literate and probing.

Graduation

Cristian Mungiu, 2016, 128 minutes

Engaging moral vortex.

Thieves Like Us

Robert Altman, 1974, 123 minutes

The scenes with Carradine and Duvall are gold.

A Perfect Couple

Robert Altman, 1979, 110 minutes

Erratic with a dynamite soundtrack.

80 for Brady

Kyle Marvin, 2023, 98 minutes

Perfectly pleasant.

Othello

Stuart Burge, 1965, 165 minutes

Olivier's histrionics are irresistible.

Django

Sergio Corbucci, 1966, 92 minutes

Peckinpah must have seen this.

Behold a Pale Horse

Fred Zinnemann, 1964, 121 minutes

Elegant and morally complex.

The Willow Tree

Majid Majidi, 2005, 96 minutes

Intense and pure.

Incident at Vichy

Stacy Keach, 1973, 70 minutes

Endlessly relevant.

All Quiet on the Western Front

Edward Berger, 2022, 147 minutes

Unrelenting.

Beloved

Christophe Honoré, 2011, 133 minutes

Appealingly melancholic.

Carancho

Pablo Trapero, 2010, 107 minutes

Compelling but with some flab.

Venus in Fur

Roman Polanski, 2013, 96 minutes

Diverting.