Longworth’s openness to the less-respected titles in the Pacino canon allows her to fashion a coherent biography of the actor’s work.
The Producers receives Blu-ray treatment that’s respectable but not quite red-carpet.
One expects the requisite allusions to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but an homage to the best scene in Melvin and Howard comes as something of a shock.
Lanzmann’s documentary is draining, demanding, resonant, and absolutely essential.
It takes cojones for a filmmaker to chase Fassbinder’s ghost, but it takes heart and talent to damn near catch up with it.
It’s set in a horror realm we might imagine when we indulge our worst fears of the hideous forms the civilized world is capable of assuming.
If you think you’ve got it rough in the love department, try dating a gorgeous space-vampire hell-bent on harvesting your planet’s souls.
This is yet another ghost story that insists there’s nothing more chilling than a woman charged with raising a child on her own.
Yet another tepid melodrama in which every creative decision appears to have been made in a trendy bid to appeal to the viewer’s crotch.
As one incoherent action scene follows another, we stare at a film with nothing to respond to, waiting for it all to be over.
Peter Strickland understands the most terrifying subtext of any horror movie and brings it brilliantly to the forefront.
This superb edition of the film is lacking only a commentary by legendary Bergman fanboy Woody Allen, but let’s get real.
A disappointingly half-assed treatment of a legendary post-apocalyptic action series that boasts two indisputable genre classics.
Sadly, Douglas Tirola’s documentary doesn’t follow its subjects’ advice regarding the refinement of technique.
The film doesn’t have the obsessive pull of a great thriller, as it’s undeniably an impersonal toy, but it’s a hell of a toy.
Walter White may soon be dead, but his legacy will live forever courtesy of this sterling Blu-ray transfer.
Criterion welcomes this early Leigh masterpiece into the fold of contemporary classics with a stunning image and outstanding audio commentary.
The film’s most striking quality, and it’s not insignificant, is director Margarethe von Trotta’s refusal to fossilize the controversies she dramatizes.
Not a game-changer as Blu-ray refurbishings go, but it’s always a pleasure to revisit one of American cinema’s more nuanced hook-armed avengers.
The most elaborate and tortured of all cinematic fashion shows has never looked more ravishingly decadent.