Memento combines a bold, mind-bending script with compelling action and virtuoso performances.
In its second season, The Sopranos sustains the edgy intelligence and unpredictable, genre-warping narrative momentum that made this modern mob saga the most critically acclaimed series of the late 1990s. To call Pearl Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. Yes, he's back, and he's still hungry. This is the film that cemented Schwarzenegger's spot in the action-brawn firmament, and it was well deserved.