The 1970s were an incredibly creative and important decade for filmmaking, producing an outsized number of classics. One of ...

“My only hope,” former Voice film critic Andrew Sarris writes in his 1977 best-of list, reprinted below, “is that I will have all the ’80s in which to reconsider the ’70s.”With the ...

For many film scholars the era of the whiz-bang summer movie season began in May 1977 with the release of George Lucas' plucky space opera "Star Wars" in theaters. While the summer of 1975 brought ...

Last week, we posted a story about how 1984 was the best movie year ever when it comes to films you actually want to watch on a rainy day playing hooky from work. Movies like Ghostbusters ...

The 35 Best Horror Movies on Max Right Now (May 2025) To be certain, there are few films in the genre with such an immediately distinctive sense of visual flair.

Variety breaks down the best movies of all time, as determined by film critics. From Psycho to Parasite, these are the best films ever made.

It was the decade that gave us midnight movies, modern blockbusters, Blaxploitation epics, neo-noirs and the cream of the New Hollywood crop. The “Film Brats” were in full bloom, and after the ...

After a rough initial release in New York, the Southern favorite "Smokey and the Bandit" eventually became the second highest grossing movie of 1977.