Critics' Picks

Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Without a single riot scene or horrific effect, it tells a slow, gentle story of camaraderie and growth, with an ending that abruptly finds poetic justice in what has come before. ... Read More

Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times

King is the product of impressive craft and energy. ... Read More

Vincent Canby, The New York Times

Francis Ford Coppola has made one of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment. ... Read More

Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Rising brilliantly to the challenge of this material and displaying an electrifying creative intelligence, Mr. Spielberg has made sure that neither he nor the Holocaust will ever be thought of in the same way again. ... Read More

Vincent Canby, The New York Times

Goodfellas looks and sounds as if it must be absolutely authentic. ... Read More

Janet Maslin, The New York Times

A soberly magnificent new war film. ... Read More

Vincent Canby, The New York Times

Kubrick's harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric new film about Vietnam, is going to puzzle, anger and (I hope) fascinate audiences as much as any film he has made to date. ... Read More

Vincent Canby, The New York Times

Its appeal, which goes beyond that of other, equally masterly Hitchcock works, remains undiminished. ... Read More

Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

That traditional object of sorrow and compassion in American folk song and lore, the chain-gang prisoner, is given as strong a presentation as ever he has had on the screen. ... Read More

A.H. Weiler, The New York Times

Mr. Wyler and his associates have fashioned a natural, tender, and amusing yarn about the heiress to the throne of a mythical kingdom who is sick unto death of an unending schedule of speeches, greetings, and interviews attendant on her goodwill ... Read More