The wallow in nostalgia and sentimentality isn’t a sign that the boys have grown soft.
Mocky’s Solo is permeated with an aura of malaise and despair.
The film’s vision of masculine self-sufficiency is built around an elemental violence.
Criterion has outfitted Cholodenko’s breakthrough debut with a good-looking transfer.
The film is a satirical skewering of the legacy of French imperialism.
The film isn’t a gonzo shock artifact, but a furious and mysterious howl of despair.
The film often strikes the right balance between loony satire and heartfelt commentary.
Even as its lens widens, the film remains relentlessly rooted in its main character’s subjectivity.
Despite its title, Schoenbrun’s film is less about sex and death than sex and cinema.
Cheang’s 1994 feature-length directorial debut is as forceful as its title implies.
Death looms large over Visconti’s penultimate film.
The film understands that the truly wild movies are casual about their wildness.
Tanaka’s directorial efforts focus on complicated women and the myriad issues that affect them.
The film turns the realities of a tragic, deeply complicated life into a sanitized popcorn film.
Damiani’s film is a chilling portrait of a society on the brink of destroying itself.
The film sparkles like never before on this long-overdue 4K upgrade from Criterion.
Kaji Meiko is as transfixing as she is mysterious throughout Yamaguchi’s diptych.
Vidor’s iconic noir gets a sparkling 4k upgrade from the Criterion Collection.
Aneil Karia’s Hamlet is one of the more intimate adaptations of Shakespeare’s play to date.
These films follow honorable samurai on missions to assassinate corrupt lords and politicos.