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Documentary following five obsessive film fans as they plan their daily visits to New York's arthouse cinemas.

It's another centennial celebration, this time for the tough cookie always forced to crumble

By declaring the director as the principal artistic force behind the creation of a film, the auteur theory changed forever the way the cinematic art is perceived.

Michael Moore almost single handedly made documentary movies "sexy" (meaning profitable), but his confrontational style has made many ask "What exactly is a documentary?"

This charming, earnest tale relies not on special effects but purely on the skills of its stars for a modern take on the adage, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

She never won a competitive Oscar, but Barbara Stanwyck remains among Hollywood's most loved and admired film actors, thanks to an astonishingly diverse filmography.

The '76 version, believe it or not, wins over the '33 and the '06

In recent months, movie critics have been laid off from their publications. This is thanks to the Internet where people are now going for influential movie rankings.

Long before Helen Mirren won acclaim as the current monarch, Bette Davis did same as Her Majesty's namesake, in 1939's "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex"

The National Society of Film critics has named Ari Folman's animated documentary Waltz With Bashir as the best film of 2008. Sony Pictures Classics distributes the film.

The script behind Citizen Kane, and the Oscar it received, are up for auction...but is it worth the money?

Is there a right way and a wrong way to approach film criticism? What separates the good reviews from the bad? These are the questions at the heart of every review.

Inglrious Bastards once again shows Quentin Tarantino in top form with his masterful handling of writing, plot, charcters and direction.

Sullivan's Travels remains as fresh as ever, mixing its director's schizophrenic mastery of language and sight gag, comedy and drama, whimsy and deeply felt values.

Duck Soup - the fifth and best of the Marx Brothers' movies - is their funniest and fastest film, a multi-faceted farce that plays as razor-sharp today as it did in 1933.