December 2025
The critic and cowriter ofNightmare Alleyexplores the complexity of Gene Tierney’s femme fatale inLeave Her to Heaven,compares Adam Sandler and Paul Thomas Anderson’s work onPunch-Drunk Loveto the collaboration of James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, and talks about the enduring influence ofKiss Me Deadly.
7 picks

Dorothy Arzner
1932 • United States • 1h 23m
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Jack Garfein
1961 • United States • 1h 52m
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John M. Stahl
1945 • United States • 1h 50m

François Girard
1993 • Canada • 1h 33m

Paul Thomas Anderson
2002 • United States • 1h 36m
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Robert Aldrich
1955 • United States • 1h 46m
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Stanley Kubrick
1956 • United States • 1h 25m
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