Film Search
- May 24, 2012
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Ratatouille (G)
Brad Bird's second collaboration with Pixar (2007) is more ambitious and meditative than his Oscar-winning The Incredibles. more...
- Dec 21, 2011
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Rear Window (PG)
The most densely allegorical of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces (1954), moving from psychology to morality to formal concerns and finally to the theological. more...
- Dec 21, 2011
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Rebecca (NR)
There are too many conflicting levels of authorship—between Alfred Hitchcock, Daphne du Maurier, and David O. Selznick—for this 1940 film to be a complete success, but through its first two-thirds it is as perfect a myth of adolescence as any of the Disney films, documenting the childlike, nameless heroine's initiation into the adult mysteries of sex, death, and identity, and the impossibility of reconciling these forces with family strictures. more...
- Nov 22, 2007
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The Red Balloon and White Mane
Most family films nowadays operate on two distinct levels, one for children and another for jaded adults, but these classic shorts by French director Albert Lamorisse are so pure in their emotion and elemental in their drama that parents may be as moved as their kids. more...
- May 12, 2003
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The Red Circle (NR)
Jean-Pierre Melville's austere heist film, made in 1970, was his next to last; it opens with a Buddhist aphorism about fate binding two men to meet again, and ends with a police chief pronouncing all men ultimately guilty. more...
- Oct 8, 2009
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Red Cliff (R)
Released in China as two movies but edited down to a single feature for U.S. release, John Woo's 2008 historical drama takes place early in the third century, when the Han Dynasty, having won a civil war in the north, set out to crush two troublemaking warlords in the south. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Red Shoes (NR)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Trilby-based ballet film (1948) has been the cult property of dance freaks for far too long. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Reign of Terror
Along with James Whale's The Great Garrick, this 1949 melodrama about the French Revolution, also known as The Black Book, is one of the few period pictures that qualify as film noir; Anthony Mann directed it with sumptuously arty chiaroscuro (cinematography by John Alton). more...
- May 2, 2013
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (R)
Mira Nair is so effective and important as a chronicler of the South Asian experience in America (Mississippi Masala, The Namesake) that one hates to see her wasting her time on stuff like Vanity Fair and Amelia. more...
- Jul 13, 2007
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Rescue Dawn (PG-13)
Released by MGM, starring two busy Hollywood actors, and easily slotted as a Vietnam POW adventure, this 2009 drama could be Werner Herzog's most commercial movie ever. more...
