R. S. Martin

Brian De Palma ’s 1972 film Sisters , starring Margot Kidder , is no longer a film that can be watched on its own terms. One can’t help but ...

The Godfather , directed by Francis Ford Coppola, has a pretty fair claim to being the Great American Movie. It begins in 1945. At a wedding...

The Candidate is probably the single finest movie about American politics, and easily the richest (and funniest) treatment of a political c...

This review was originally published on Pol Culture . From its first shot to its last, the German writer-director Werner Herzog’s Aguirre,...