At first glance, 'Inside Man' appeared to be a very different movie for Spike Lee than what he's known for, but it's still a New York film through and through and it belongs near the top of Lee's filmography.
10 years ago Daniel Gelb delivered one of the truly great documentaries about food with 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi', a compelling portrait of a master at work.
In the summer of 2003, Bob Dylan starred in an extremely bizarre film called 'Masked and Anonymous', set in a post-apocalyptic USA and stuffed with countless cameos.
George Clooney has been a movie star for 25 years now, but the best movie he's ever been a part of — 'Michael Clayton' — is one from 2007 that was a flop at the time of its release.
'Morning Glory'. which was released 10 years ago last week, is a TV news comedy that has a lot of charms and grapples with the loss of the soul of the news business.
20 years ago this week, David Lynch released what many consider to be his magnum opus. 'Mulholland Dr.' embodies everything people love about that baffling Lynchian formula.
A lot of the Coens brothers' movies are dark, and a lot of them are violent, but none are as downright bleak as 'No Country for Old Men' - arguably the best film in their steep catalog.
'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' was a troubled revisionist Western that featured a stellar cast and infamous supporting performance from one Bob Dylan.
Initially a flop when it first released, 'Rounders' became a foundational text during the poker craze of the early aughts.
The 1990s were the days of high-concept movies, and what higher concept is there than The American President?
Released 10 years ago, 'The Dark Knight Rises' might not be as highly regarded as its 2008 predecessor, but its still a very good superhero film and easily better than every one that followed.
'The Hidden' arrived three years before the arrival of 'Twin Peaks,' but it's a movie that should naturally appeal to fans of that particular show. For one, it's got Kyle MacLachlan, playing an FBI agent with an unorthodox style.
Originally written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the 1973 adaptation of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' is unquestionably the best movie ever made from a Webber show.
Jim Carrey exploded onto the scene of the mid-1990s as one of Hollywood's leading stars going on an impressive run of major hits, with his criminally underrated 'Liar Liar' coming right in the midst of it all.
In the year 1990, there were many very memorable gangster films and numerous equally good modern re-tellings of Shakespearian plays; 'Men of Respect', a weird, silly adaptation of Macbeth, was neither of those.
'Moonrise Kingdom', which arrived 10 years ago this week, is arguably Wes Anderson's most underrated and different film amongst his storied pantheon of movies. Charming, low-stakes, and very funny.
The original album tracks will be newly remastered by The Doors' longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick and will be accompanied by a biographical comic book.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of some great movies from 1972, and while 'Night of the Lepus' (a horror pseudo-Western about giant bunnies attacking) isn't a great film by any stretch, it is a great oddity.
Despite being a major flop upon release, Steven Soderbergh's 'Out of Sight' still stands as one of the best crime films of the 1990s and features the best on-screen performances from George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.
Though it paints Alan Dershowitz as a hero, 'Reversal of Fortune' was a fascinating "true story" legal procedural that examined both loveless blue blood marriages, and of the conundrum of lawyers defending a client who very well may be guilty.
'Ski Patrol' was released 30 years ago last month and while it's considerably dated in many ways, it remains a screamingly funny movie - granted you love physical gags and nutshots.
10 years ago last week saw the release of 'The Artist', a throwback film released 80 years after the end of the silent era that dominated the awards season, but has now all but disappeared from the public conscious.
John Grisham's novel "The Firm" was a massive hit in 1991, and its movie adaptation was not only the best Grisham adaptation, but the best lawyer movie of the entire decade; featuring a stellar cast led by a young Tom Cruise.
Released 50 years ago, Robert Altman's 'The Long Goodbye' represents one of the most fascinating and miraculous films of the 1970s, starring an Elliott Gould in his prime.