The fun of the action scenes exacerbates the failure of the narrative to adequately contend with its own themes.
The overriding despair of Winter’s War’s imagery calls into question who, exactly, the film is for.
It has all the charm of the best entries in the Star Wars series, and it arrives on a pristine Blu-ray primed to delight the next generation of fans.
Held up for years, this release of Edward Yang’s four-hour masterpiece makes up for the wait with a superlative A/V transfer.
Frankenheimer’s masterpiece gets a sparkling new transfer that brings out the most of its skewed interiors and domestic horror.
Agnès Varda’s 1988 features are two of her most evocative, and provocative, films.
The film arrives prepackaged with suggested comparisons to Heat that it never earns because of its dreary literal-mindedness.
This wry variation on Rohmer’s style of romantic comedy is a must-own, even if the Blu-ray is slightly marred by an unrestored negative.
Nagisa Oshima’s satire on capital punishment and its racist application has lost none of its relevance.
The film is frequently guilty of the same obsolescence it accuses the characters of embodying.
Renoir’s most well-known American feature is a fascinating translation of the filmmaker’s methods and outlook into a Hollywood milieu.
Del Toro’s lavish, tragic romance is his most personal film to date, and this gorgeous Blu-ray reflects its exacting perfectionism.
Joel and Ethan Coen’s idiosyncrasies elevate Hail, Caesar! above the level of a mere creative exercise.
Its veneer of abstract dispassion gradually reveals a heartfelt alternate history that lives up to the genre’s notions of nobility.
Despite the poor quality of the A/V transfers, Olive Films is doing a public service by collecting John Huston’s war documentaries on home video.
Fujita’s grindhouse classics look more than ever like the idiosyncratic, personal projects that they are.
There’s something to be said for Michael Bay’s turn to less expensive films after crafting quarter-billion-dollar toy commercials for the better part of a decade.
An unexpected experiment from a director who unfortunately never got the chance to build on its breakthroughs.
Wild even by Sono’s standards, and on home video it makes the ideal party movie, or a great way to piss off that neighbor you hate.
Hannibal’s wildly variant, ambitious, possibly final season is sent off in style with a surprisingly thorough home-video package.