Pulp Fiction at 30: Quentin Tarantino’s masterwork remains electric
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50: a brutal yet artful shock horror
September 2024
The Shawshank Redemption at 30: is it really the greatest film ever made?
It suffered at the box office and failed to win any Oscars, but the 1994 prison drama is still seen by many as greater than The Godfather
August 2024
Natural Born Killers at 30: Oliver Stone’s brash button-pusher remains tiresome
The director’s all-out-assault from 1994 is a grotesque and garish attempt to make a string of very obvious points
July 2024
Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather
Tom Hanks is an affecting lead but the popularity of Robert Zemeckis’s much-loved Oscar-winner is still a curious mystery
June 2024
Chinatown at 50: has there been a greater screenplay since?
‘It always destroys me’: our writers on their saddest movie deaths
Gremlins at 40: Joe Dante’s untamed classic is a love letter to chaos
Once Upon a Time in America at 40: Sergio Leone’s brutal gangster epic endures
May 2024
Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at 40: Spielberg’s hit-and-miss relic
April 2024
The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece
The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our lives
March 2024
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind at 20: a love story that’s impossible to forget
Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet forget they used to be in love in a wonderfully inventive and moving reminder of why romantic pain is an important thing to remember
February 2024
Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today
The 1974 spin on westerns sees Mel Brooks pointing at the absurdity of racism and the history of human evil while always ensuring a steady stream of laughter
January 2024
Dr Strangelove at 60: is this still the greatest big-screen satire?
2024 culture preview
From Megalopolis to Joker 2: the 2024 films Guardian writers are most excited about
December 2023
The best films of 2023 … you may not have seen
Pigeons! Superheroes! Farts! The best movie moments of 2023
Schindler’s List at 30: Spielberg’s Holocaust drama is as essential as ever
Serpico at 50: a daring look at police corruption anchored by Al Pacino