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Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' was unleashed on this day in 1960. @mousterpiece.bsky.social explains why its ad campaign was so innovative: crookedmarquee.com/psycho-at-60...

In its first hour, “‘Smooth Talk’ is intimate and lived-in,” @ceilidhann.bsky.social writes. “If that were all the film was, it would still be an astute portrait of feminine adolescence. But then the third act turns up.” crookedmarquee.com/smooth-talk-...

‘Hackers,’ released 30 years ago today, is in many ways a mid-‘90s relic. But it also predicted much about the way we choose to see and present ourselves in the not-so-real world, @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social writes: crookedmarquee.com/hackers-was-...

“EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert,” “Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial VS That’s the Weight of the World),” “Five Easy Pieces,” “Explorers,” “The Front,” “West Indies,” and more of the best movies to buy or stream this week: crookedmarquee.com/the-best-mov...

Our third and final report from the Tribeca Festival goes heavy on non-fiction, with mini-reviews of “Chris & Martina: The Final Set,” “Time Warp,” “Spin Wars,” “Odyssey,” and more:

Jacques Tati’s delightful comedy 'Monsieur Hulot's Holiday' was released on this day in 1953. It is, in many ways, the perfect summer movie: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

“Il Postino (The Postman),” the Best Picture nominee that served as Miramax’s dry run for the success of “Life is Beautiful,” was released in the U.S. on this day in 1995: crookedmarquee.com/harveys-hell...

Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services includes “Charade,” “Pillion,” “Happyend,” “The Boys in the Band,” “Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean,” “High Art,” and more:

“Here’s the thing about ‘The Third Man’” @jasondashbailey.com writes. “No matter how little you remember Orson Welles being in it, he’s in it even less.”

The WWII epic 'A Bridge Too Far' (released on this day in 1977) is a good, old-fashioned entertainment – in more than one way: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn....

“Caity,” “The Best Summer,” “House of Criticism,” “Harvest,” and more movies of note from the just-completed Tribeca Festival:

Warren Beatty's 'Dick Tracy' was released on this day in 1990. @billbria.bsky.social looked at how it changed our notion of what a "comic book movie" could be: crookedmarquee.com/how-dick-tra...

Some movies are classics for a reason. Carol Reed's 1949 thriller “The Third Man,” back in theaters in a new 35mm re-release, is one of them.