May 29, 2025
Met with befuddlement upon release, the final masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick is now rightly recognized as one of the great works of modern cinema—as mysterious and perfectly unsettled as ever.
Tom Cruise gives one of his greatest performances in Paul Thomas Anderson’s mesmerizing, rocket-fueled epic of interlocking lives in Southern California, a fleet, galvanizing portrayal of people on the edge.
One of the first major American movies to explicitly reference the tragedies of 9/11 and a world undone by terrorism (and the American response to it), Spielberg’s genuinely scary box office smash starring Tom Cruise is an astonishing memento mori.
Set in a future where U.S. citizens can be arrested for crimes they have not yet committed, Spielberg’s film raises questions of guilt and innocence that seem eerily prescient.
With a shock of white hair, Tom Cruise expertly inhabits one of his true unambiguously villainous characters in Michael Mann’s slick action thriller.
May 22, 2025
Vincente Minnelli’s sensitive and multilayered 1956 adaptation of Robert Anderson’s Broadway hit about a mild-mannered boarding school student mercilessly mistreated for his possible homosexuality created a storm of controversy. Followed by a discussion with MoMI’s Senior Curator of Film Michael Koresky, and a signing of his new book Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness.
