Best Picture

One of the most hotly-debated Oscars decisions gets re-evaluated.

Sure, it precedes Ridley Scott's epic, but "Braveheart" resists the revenge to devastating effect.

Billy Wilder's 1960 Best Picture winner is flawed, but its lessons are more important than ever.

Not even Audrey Hepburn can save George Cukor's overlong, insulting musical.

In another world, this is a gloriously campy, homoerotic spectacle. As it is...

It's far from perfect, but Ben Affleck's 2012 Best Picture winner is still an admirable historical thriller.

Fred Zinnemann's underrated gem is the magnum opus of a cinematic legend.

Robert Zemeckis' '90s juggernaut is a feast of boomer bullshit.

The Coen Brothers carved out a neo-western masterpiece with a hair cut, a briefcase, and a really old coin.

In the first Oscars redux, one of the most hotly-contested Best Picture lineups gets re-evaluated.

Over 50 years after its release, 1973's Best Picture remains the benchmark for Hollywood heists.

It's off and away in Michael Anderson's adaptation of the Jules Verne classic. Too bad the journey is a nightmare.

Michael Cimino's 1978 Best Picture winner occasionally misses the mark, but it's reflection on Vietnam is still worth our time.

Scorsese could take a note from one of his childhood's classics...

1967's Best Picture Winner isn't what it believes, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have something to offer.

It may feel tame by today's standards, but movies this honest are more necessary than ever.

Spielberg does not fully commit to the horror, but Schindler's List remains the preeminent depiction of humanity's darkest hour.

2000's Best Picture winner remains a powerful, moving testament to the human spirit.

Barry Jenkins' modern masterpiece offers profound insight on race, sexuality, addiction, and how inescapable life's obstacles can feel.

In Tom McCarthy's masterpiece, unmasking a horrifying truth means confronting heartbreaking lies.

Robert Redford's controversial Best Picture winner is more important now than ever.

It has, perhaps, aged poorly, but Woody Allen's iconic romantic comedy still has quite a lot to offer.

Hollywood's most popular movie is problematic - that doesn't make it worth forgetting.

Dances with Wolves is a flawed epic, but it's far more than an excuse to look at Kevin Costner.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's masterpiece is a cutting dissection of show business and a sobering lament on humanity.

Sorry, Elaine, but I'll take this romance over "Sack Lunch" any day.

In 1933's horribly dated Oscar darling, we reflect on how far we've come in the cinematic process.

Bernardo Bertolucci's lavish lament on China's last monarch deserves a place in cinema's pantheon.

This misguided showbiz satire proves that style is never better than substance.

Elia Kazan says he did no wrong. His movie says otherwise.

Where does Oppenheimer's epic ambition fall... other than Japan?

A bitter composer and his legendary rival with a penchant for fart jokes. What could go wrong?

Bucking cliche is the name of the game in this touching family drama.
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American Beauty never knew us as well as it thought it did, but that's (mostly) okay.
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Jack Nicholson and the horrible, terrible, no good, totally bonkers insane asylum.