The lame extras are disappointing, but Spielberg’s quietly subversive political comedy receives an otherwise superlative transfer.
The filmmaker’s failure of empathy for those who strive to outlaw medicinal marijuana turns the protestors into hissable puritanical bad guys.
A Man Escaped is a great movie as well as an ideal introduction to the work of Robert Bresson.
The “male gaze” that often despicably and hypocritically surfaces in these kinds of films is pointedly absent throughout.
Bates Motel suggests what Gilmore Girls would’ve been like if it arbitrarily featured a tormented young Charles Manson.
Crazy & Thief is ultimately an obnoxiously fraudulent non-movie.
The extras are slight, but America’s favorite man-eating globe of gelatin has never looked better.
Rebecca Thomas’s debut feature is a sensible and humane exploration of youthful curiosity.
Sadly, those looking for any insight into Journey from Ramona S. Diaz’s documentary are going to have to look elsewhere.
It’s been part of the film canon for so long that it’s valuable to remind audiences how gloriously alive and just plain fun it is.
The film is overly indebted to formula, but at its best, it’s an engagingly free-form character study.
This Blu-ray doesn’t quite represent Criterion at its transformative best, but that’s admittedly a tall order anyway.
Anderson’s most arresting and original work to date ultimately reveals itself to be a great thwarted American love story.
Yes, it has an inventive score and a game James Coburn, but In Like Flint is still a lumbering, hypocritical dinosaur.
it’s clear that Ruba Nadda enjoys injecting familiar genre tropes with an element of Middle-Eastern political critique.
Criterion’s presentation of a strange classic is very much a contender.
Under even the best of circumstances, Saving Lincoln would have to inevitably face the scrutiny of potential redundancy.
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder, sadly, isn’t the film to preserve Ferlinghetti’s legacy for the YouTube and iPod generation.
Neil Barsky is, refreshingly, aware of how a great and terribly troubling person can reside in the same body.
Looper injects the sci-fi actioneer with a much-needed jolt of moral consciousness.