Haigh’s haunting film receives a flawless transfer and a helpful lot of production-oriented supplements from Criterion.
Wùlu ultimately lacks enough distinctive formal touches to break free from its superior predecessors.
The film tends to literalize its theme of unfulfilled desire by having characters explicitly lament their lost pasts.
The film’s singularity of vision derives in part from its unusual comingling of settings and characters.
Canners plays a bit too infatuated with its subjects and for reasons not wholly clear by the film’s end.
The Institute seems constantly on the verge of dipping into spoof, though of what exactly is difficult to say.
Director Colm McCarthy’s The Girl with All the Gifts is a tedious exercise in dystopian chic.
Criterion restores this quotidian epic of peasant life in late-19th century Italy to its simultaneously vibrant and dismal self.
So Yong Kim’s Lovesong manages a convincing articulation of a complex friendship between two women.
The film rolls political commentary into the template of a “lost highway” horror film by forgoing ironic distancing.
The film makes no concessions about its dissatisfaction with the whole rotten lot of so-called western democracy.
This luminous and informative Blu-ray release should ensure at least some degree of collective reconsideration in the years to come.
The film arrives on Blu-ray with an immaculate transfer and a lacking slate of extras from Criterion.
The Girl on the Train arrives on Blu-ray in a serviceable, if unremarkable, packaging from Universal.
Mehrdad Oskouei avoids sentimentalizing the girls or tritely lamenting their stolen innocence.
Celia Rowlson-Hall’s Ma has had its subtext dragged kicking and screaming to the surface by its writer-director.
Anderson’s Heart of a Dog seems more prescient, brilliant, beautiful, and simply necessary than ever before.
It lurches toward acts of extreme violence with little interest other than the titillation such moments afford.
The strength of Queer Cinema in the World lies in its thorough and precise articulations of aesthetic traits.
One of the best performances from one of classical Hollywood’s greatest actors is finally given the red-carpet Blu-ray treatment it deserves.