The Israeli squad sent after the Black September operatives, and what it costs them.
Five notes, a mountain of mashed potato, and first contact.
A boy hides an alien in his bedroom closet in suburban California.
The film that invented the summer blockbuster, mostly by hiding the shark.
The Osage murders of the 1920s, told as a marriage.
Two Jesuit priests search for their mentor in seventeenth-century Japan.
Little Italy, small-time hoods and the film that started De Niro and Scorsese.
A withdrawn girl befriends a mysterious blonde in a marsh-side mansion.
Four-inch borrowers live under the floorboards of a house in the suburbs.
Shape-shifting raccoon dogs wage a losing war against Tokyo suburban sprawl.
An office worker revisits her ten-year-old self on a trip to the safflower fields.
Takahata's charcoal-sketch retelling of Japan's oldest folk tale.
A bookish girl follows a cat through Tokyo and decides to write.
A goldfish princess wants to become human, and the sea rises with her.
The aeronautical engineer who designed the Zero, and what his beautiful machines became.
A young doctor learns humility in a nineteenth-century clinic for the poor.
A rookie detective loses his pistol in postwar Tokyo and hunts it through the heat.
The first Kurosawa-Mifune film: a slum doctor and a tubercular gangster.
A Russian surveyor and a Nanai hunter survive the Siberian taiga together.
The two bickering peasants George Lucas turned into R2-D2 and C-3PO.
A thief is made to impersonate a dead warlord to hold a clan together.
King Lear as a sixteenth-century warlord epic, in Kurosawa's fiercest colour.
A shoe executive must choose between his fortune and a kidnapped boy.
Macbeth relocated to feudal Japan, ending in a storm of arrows.
A masterless samurai plays two gangs against each other for money.
A bureaucrat with cancer decides to build one playground before he dies.
The origin film that made the caped crusader plausible again.
Kubrick's racetrack heist told out of order; the film that got him noticed.
Gladwell reopens his own 2000 book with darker cases: Miami bank fraud, a Los Angeles cheetah enclosure and the opioid epidemic.
The Air Corps officers who believed precision bombing could win a war humanely, and Curtis LeMay burning Tokyo instead.
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