Mostly remembered for its plot twist, Jordan’s film is marked by a deep sense of empathy.
Treme’s deeply humane treatment of a communal tragedy, not a national one, quite simply blows the doors off the place.
White Material is the suffocating smoke of colonialist ideology billowing up into the air.
A high-water mark of American cinema gets its due treatment on this luxurious disc. No respectable collection should go without it.
Mesrine is a pretend epic just enjoyable enough to make you wish that Cassel would get a real one.
Black Swan is maddening, uneven, often bonkers, but it’s also often strangely beautiful.
In spite of some promising and fun nourish tropes, I Vinti is for Antonioni completists only.
The film is an extreme test of one’s patience, a sluggish modernist power point presentation on the glorious influence of Jesus’s greatest hits.
This double feature of everyone’s favorite giant turtle should appeal equally to young children and middle-aged virgins.
With Eclipse’s latest, the amount of region 1-available Naruse increases sixfold, but it’s still just the tip of the iceberg.
The Switch remains another easily disposable entertainment built out of the rubble of a promising literary prospect.
With Topsy-Turvy, Leigh jettisons his usual pinpoint focus in favor of a broad, inclusive narrative.
A solid, contextualized presentation of a pivotal work by an ambitious comic with a gift for visual poetry.
If you can accept that the film is a little too good at being alienating, then you’ll find a lot to like about it.
The film is a strange, well-intentioned mess that builds to an unusually effective ending.
Pick up this Joel-bilee of the enduringly awesome Mystery Science Theater 3000, preferably in the not-too-distant future.
The set features a number of very strong, and a few great, episodes from a too-clever-for-its-own-good cartoon series.
As far as Blu-ray releases of adaptations of The Mikado go, the Criterion Collection’s is sufficiently decayed.
Milk’s impact on the pulse of modern day politics still resonates today, and this documentary reminds us why.
Yi Yi remains a fitting cinematic epitaph to the graceful canon of the brilliant Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang.
This collection features one essential B movie and three perfectly adequate ones.