Birds of Paradise lacks the nuance and finesse needed for its story to really take flight.
The film persuasively sheds light on the grievances of the Palestinian people that have long fallen on deaf ears.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye exists only to allow its performers to run in pyrotechnic circles around each other.
The film is elevated by funny, cleverly staged sequences, but it too often hammers the notion that fame destroys authenticity.
The strong A/V presentation and slate of extras are reason enough for even Netflix-subscribing fans of the film to shell out for this release.
The film upends the clichés that practically define the ghost story in surprising and intriguing ways.
Arrow’s wonderfully curated box set is the perfect prescription for anyone looking to expand their giallo horizons.
The film’s gore is just as likely to invoke fear as to serve as a killer punchline to one of Rodo Sayagues’s set pieces.
This paean to undying love stands as one of the strangest, most beautiful Hollywood films of the 1930s.
There’s so much discernible IP baked into Shawn Levy’s film to make its calls for artistic ingenuity feel hypocritical at best.
Andrzej Zulawski’s kinetic reimagining of The Idiot receives a handsome new transfer and a solid assortment of extras.
Stillwater gives itself over to drastic plot twists that derail what was already a film over-stuffed with narrative incident and ideas.
Arie and Chuko Esiri’s film is understated in its attunement to the challenges of trying to escape a stagnant existence.
Howard Hawks’s screwball classic looks and sounds sharper than ever thanks to this magnificent release.
The fundamental ineptness of Gunpowder Milkshake appears to be a consequence of the exponentially swelling glut of streaming options.
Josef von Sternberg’s strikingly idiosyncratic gangster film gets its long overdue home-video debut.
The Purge films have never been subtle, but Everardo Gout’s The Forever Purge is blunt to the extreme.
Dee Rees’s deeply personal film gets a sparkling new transfer and an assortment of revealing interviews courtesy of Criterion.
Criterion’s release of Visions of Eight offers plenty of goodies not found in their 100 Years of Olympic Films box set.
Reach out and grab a copy of this special edition of Wiene’s body horror classic.