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But the point of «Detroit» — easily among the most essential films of the year — is the aftermath: The blood was washed away, but the guilt stuck around.»

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Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» in which Ethan Hawke brilliantly plays an alcoholic Protestant minister undergoing a profound spiritual and psychological crisis, is a stunning, enrapturing film, a crowning work by one of the American cinema's most essential artists.

Becoming Chaz is undoubtedly one of the most thought - provoking films you will see on any screen this year, a frankly chronicled tale of Chaz's life as a transgender man that opens a more than occasionally mind - blowing conversation about the essentials of gender, and subsequently, sexuality.

A stunning, enrapturing film, a crowning work by one of the American cinema's most essential artists.

The most fundamental and essential extra all films should get, I wish Warner and other studios were better about including trailers on their new films.

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It is with Hellboy that del Toro seems most at ease, never losing the tone or vision of the film from beginning to end, and faithfully capturing not only the essential ingredients of Mignola's creation, but also deriving much of the storyline and plot developments from the comics themselves.

YAMATO: It says that having the continued conversation around inclusion in Hollywood and the films it honors on its most esteemed night of nights is as essential as ever.

New York Stories is an extremely mixed bag, but it is essential viewing for fans of three of the most celebrated directors in modern American film.

Like most right - minded film fans we're big fans of Sam Fuller (check out our list of essential films from the director).

One of the most ambitious movies ever made, «Boyhood» is essential viewing and a film that makes you invest in

A feature - length commentary track by director Asghar Farhadi proves to be the disc's most essential contribution, offering often oblique but always interesting insight into the development and production of the film.

Feeney's book is an essential study of one of the most iconic and influential American filmmakers, director of such films as Citizen Kane and Chimes at Midnight.

At Cannes, Hoffman made it clear that he was initially reticent to play an older character like Harold, but that he met with his future director a number of times to chat about «both our fathers,» eventually coming to perhaps the most essential component of the film and Harold himself: «We are our father at certain points.»

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Although spy intrigue is an essential element to the winning M: I formula, the feature films have always tilted more toward the action spectacle, and snagging Oscar - winning animation director Brad Bird to fill the director's chair proves to be an inspired choice — and, upon thought, a bit of a no - brainer, given that his The Incredibles was one of the most exciting action pictures in recent memory, animated or otherwise.

As the most socially relevant genre film of the year, The Dirties should be (but won't) essential viewing for every teacher, school administrator and high school student in the country.

Kill List marked Wheatley as a director to pay attention to, and his Black - As - Satan's - Soul Comedy proved he may be the most essential director working in genre films today.

Brian De Palma directs this essential gangster film about a rags to riches Cuban immigrant (Al Pacino) and his violent rise to the top of one of Miami's largest, most...

Brian De Palma directs this essential gangster film about a rags to riches Cuban immigrant (Al Pacino) and his violent rise to the top of one of Miami's largest, most dangerous drug cartels.

Stripping its gunslinger plot down to the most essential pillars, the film has plenty of incidental pleasures to offer: a -LSB-...]

Though the snow that was central to her original vision may have been stripped away, the mother - daughter aspect that was essential to her story remains the most emotionally charged part of this very amusing film and will have many mothers struggling to hold back the tears due to some of the home truths it deals with.

In 2010 it was designated the most influential film of all time in the Toronto International Film Festival's «Essential 100» list, where Jonathan Rosenbaum described it as «the pinnacle of silent cinema — and perhaps of the cinema itself.»

From the description: «Going beyond the byline and into the minds of those chronicling life after death on the freshly inked front lines of history, the film invites some of the most essential questions we ask ourselves about life, memory, and the inevitable passage of time.

But it's essential to remember every party of our history, even the things most of us wish we could forget, and Rees, who both directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay, deserves kudos for telling this story.

That last revelation initially seems gratuitous, but it's at least essential to one of the film's major themes: Nobody can understand the role they play in their loved one's lives, especially not the people that are most affected by violence.

Like any coming - of - age teen soap opera, much of the film's appeal is in its vaunting of style over substance — coining whole ways of speaking, dressing and posturing for an impressionable generation brought up on Hollywood tropes — but Heathers embraces its style as an essential keystone to filmmaking, recognizing that even the most bloated melodrama can be sold through a well - manicured image.

The last elements of Eye in the Sky are its weakest, most bluntly manipulative ones, but they don't detract from the essential questions the film raises.

To put it another way, while I'm more than sympathetic to Jonathan's desire to read Karen Ordahl Kupperman's book about early America before weighing in on The New World (I speak as one who read four different books about feudal Japan before writing my review of The Last Samurai a few years back), I think it's also essential to keep in mind the fact that most audiences who see the film will come to it with very little, if any, historical background, and that to a certain extent the film even asks to be read ahistorically.

Kurosawa's being one of the essential masters is best represented by these, his most operatic, pessimistic, and visually spectacular films.

Costume design is an increasingly essential fixture in Wes Anderson's films, fitting then that Moonrise Kingdom is his most sartorially significant picture so far.