Hitler's Madman

Douglas Sirk, 1943, 84 minutes

Effective polemic.

Coogan's Bluff

Don Siegel, 1968, 94 minutes

Mannequin-out-of-water.

The Guard

John Michael McDonagh, 2011, 93 minutes

Piquant.

Resistance

Jonathan Jakubowicz, 2020, 120 minutes

Several scenes of effective suspense.

47 Ronin

Kon Ichikawa, 1994, 132 minutes

Specialist interest only.

A Time for Burning

William C. Jersey, 1966, 56 minutes

Documents that zero progress has been made in race relations in a half-century.

Ronin

John Frankenheimer, 1998, 121 minutes

Cotton candy.

L'Age d'Or

Luis Buñuel, 1930, 63 minutes

Appealingly tiresome.

That Cold Day in the Park

Robert Altman, 1969, 113 minutes

Sandy Dennis triumph.

36th Precinct

Olivier Marchal, 2004, 110 minutes

Unrelenting.

Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932, 72 minutes

Dreamlike.