Every once and a while, a film comes around that bends the mind of everyone who watches it, sure to make it a cinematic classic. In 1999, the Wachowskis' sci-fi film The Matrix did just that with its ...

In modern film discourse, there's a tendency to equate "good" with "naturalistic." And though the dialogue of The Matrixmay be artificial, heightened, and devoid of quips found in a modern blockbuster ...