BERATING RATINGS
By Richard Corliss
Are the MPAA ratings fit for adult consumption?
HISTORY COMPOSED WITH FILM
By David Thomson
Ken Burns’s patiently magnificent The Civil War could be the best American film—and the most transcendently American experience—of the year
A GENIUS FOR DECENCY
By Stephan Talty
Teresa Wright, “the saint of a church we no longer worship at—gentle American virtue,” gave us some of the best moments of our lives
HEARTS OF THE WORLD
By Mary Corliss
Vital signs from Cannes 1990
MADE MEN
By Kathleen Murphy
Martin Scorsese at the top of his form: a look at Goodfellas
Plus: Scorsese interviewed by Gavin Smith
CHASING THE HAT
By Richard T. Jameson
What’s the rumpus? Just the brothers Coen mapping the darkling world of Miller’s Crossing, and not getting a single move wrong
GETTING DOWN TO THE BONE
By Marlaine Glicksman
John Turturro interviewed
RIGHT VILLAINS
By Graham Fuller
Supergrasses, spivs, and razor boys: a short history of British crime movies, including Chicago Joe and The Krays
WHO FRAMED MAURIZIO NICHETTI
By Robert DiMatteo
A slapstick chase down the career track of “Italy’s Woody Allen”
ALL ABOUT CICERO
By Donald Lyons
“A man of nobility, eloquence, and dissatisfaction”—Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Five Fingers
GAMESMANSHIP
By Robert Horton
Glasnost gets pixilated
