Mini-Review: The title and message are very blunt but the film's delivery is anything but. Using the film's runtime to full advantage, von Stroheim allows these characters to develop slowly and naturally and to let the various manifestations of greed reveal themselves slowly and to ever increasing negative effects. The acting is a big part of this as the effects on the characters' personalities are just as important as the actions. The finale is the culmination of everything that precedes it, perfection.

Mini-Review: Powerful, powerful stuff. A call to action that may have lost a little relevance but still retains a moving reminder of the past. Those images speak a million words and the song is great too.

Mini-Review: An incredible movie on nearly every level. The characters are so real that it almost feels as if you're watching a documentary. While it's primarily about marriage and relationships it explores many aspects of personal motivations and fullfilment through characters that are genuinely complex.

Mini-Review: Tierney has never been better than here as the mystical Laura who captures the hearts of men and leads them astray. The mysterious aura that surrounds the film is in large part thanks to her, but also due to the magnificent visual touches from Preminger.

Mini-Review: Rohmer's gift of creating realistic characters and conversations strikes home with this one, giving us four characters who are very realistic, nuanced and more than a little flawed. He makes a great choice of showing us everything through Gaspard's eyes allowing for multilayered interpretation of both his and the female character's motivations. The actors help a lot in this regard, using all sorts of subtle and not so subtle body language while the camera makes you a fly on the wall to their liv