When black people masquerade as white, it’s all about the payback—and a seductive fantasy of transformation.

Akira Kurosawa's final film, an elegy to a master teacher whose students adore him, is that rarely achieved thing -- a director's haunting valedictory.

In the gooey "Duets," three couples seek salvation in a karaoke bar; for the displaced children of "Into the Arms of Strangers," salvation exacted a higher price.

Moonlight Mile may be a sentimental, feel-good look at a family in mourning, but Jake Gyllenhaal rises above the clichéd script with a brilliantly creative performance.

Restored and uncensored, Fellini's masterpiece, "Nights of Cabiria," finds tremendous power in tracing the emotional life of a streetwalker.

We Were Soldiers
Borstal Boy
Plus 40 Days and 40 Nights

In "Notting Hill," a famous movie star falls in love with the proprietor of a bookstore -- Hollywood-speak for a creature doomed to extinction.

In "Antz," Woody Allen again snares a young beauty -- Sharon Stone -- but this time she's an insect and so is he.