Reflections in a Golden Eye: a “hothouse tale” of desire and simmering violence

Intruder in the Dust captures the chilling reality of Jim Crow

Freedom Riders: Terror and profundity in eyewitness history of an epochal era

L.A. story: A dark, seductive tale of lust and murder in Double Indemnity

Dance of the damned: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

A “completely modern” comedy of façades and human frailty, Dinner at Eight still surprises

The Wings of the Dove: Classic Henry James as film noir

Improvisation on a noir theme: The jazz of François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player

Terror, suspense, and the power of suggestion in The Haunting

All-American loneliness and “a universe of yearnings” in The Member of the Wedding

The Natural is a sports movie that swings for the fences—and knocks it out of the park

Tinseltown meets the Great White Way: Classic musicals that thrived on stage and screen

Dark, sexy, funny: What makes Out of Sight the best film version of an Elmore Leonard novel

Faith and faithfulness in John Huston’s Wise Blood

Purple Noon: A superior take on The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Incredible Shrinking Man: A cinematic nightmare both all-American and Kafka-esque