Already evident in Passion is Hamaguchi’s peerless sense of how people perform for others.
Sick of Myself’s tunnel vision feels like a failure of nerve.
An unimpeachable American masterpiece receives a gloriously shaggy and vital 4K upgrade.
The film revels in the force of will that a virtuosic Joan Crawford allows Mildred Pierce.
In Water suggests Picasso knocking off a sketch on a piece of paper in a matter of seconds.
Welles’s noir gets a sterling new transfer as well as a fine roster of extras both old and new.
The film is so riddled with noir clichés that one may initially take it for a genre parody.
With The Outwaters, the found-footage horror film has unexpectedly found its trippy, unmooring, ultraviolent answer to the cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft.
Kino has outfitted this release with a solid transfer and a fun, informative audio commentary.
The film has a free-floating, nearly intangible sense of unease that greatly serves it.
As confident as writer-director Chloe Domont is with high-finance gamesmanship, she’s sharper as a dramatist of premarital decay among millennials.
The film reemphasizes the moral weight and emotional anguish at the heart of Frankenstein.
Kyle Edward Ball’s debut feature suggests a Halloween issue of Architectural Digest.
Criterion accords this seminal teen film a gorgeous transfer and a few nutritious extras.
Lizzie Gottlieb’s documentary is a celebration of a profound, dying privilege.
The dearth of extras make this release feel like a missed opportunity.
2nd Chance is a terrific American tall tale as well as a cautionary tale and a ripping good yarn.
Kino’s 4K release offers the ultimate experience of one mean, bleak trip to hell.
A transcendent bump in presentation materializes in the soundscapes but not quite the imagery.
The fan-boyishness that can get away from Tarantino in his writings for the New Beverly Cinema is wielded like a scalpel in Cinema Speculation.