Tyrel viscerally cuts to the everyday heart of living in a fraught cultural mixing pot.
Sicilian Ghost Story is determinedly unclassifiable, blurring genres with a fervor that grows tedious.
The documentary offers a profound glimpse of one of the greatest and most influential voices in modern music.
Arbelos offers a landmark restoration of a raw, self-devouring work of auto-critical cinema that was decades ahead of its time.
The filmmakers clearly love Laurel and Hardy, and this love is both Stan & Ollie’s great liability and chief strength.
The disc offers a beautiful transfer of a neglected film.
One of the Criterion Collection’s best recent discs, this restoration of Sex, Lies, and Videotape is a dream for cinephiles.
At times, Cameron Yates appears to be too protective of his subjects, which somewhat neuters the drama of the narrative.
The film diagnoses the spreading rot of the United States without losing its sexy, empathetic cool.
This gnarly, terrifying, daring horror film receives a beautiful transfer and a solid collection of extras.
Morgan Neville understands Orson Welles’s art to pivot on an ongoing quest to bring about self-destruction so as to contrive to transcend it.
The Other Side of the Wind isn’t a novelty item, but a work of anguished art that’s worthy of its creator.
A yearning for tolerance united many of the festival’s films.
The Fog is pivotal to the cementing of director John Carpenter’s aesthetic.
Criterion has sensitively restored Cold Water, allowing Americans to finally savor the film’s simultaneously dreamy and docudramatic vitality.
The film understands that money is a defining element of art-making, whether or not we wish to admit it.
Fassbinder blends kitchen-sink realism with the expressionism that would cement his legend.
Hosking’s film is one of those absurdist boutique comedies that pushes against the definition of a punchline.
Rudy Valdez has no distance from the material, which works simultaneously in the film’s favor and, largely, its disfavor.
In Barbara, the process of filmmaking is shown to be a nesting series of shells that allow one to be simultaneously freed and lost.