Despite occasional hiccups in the source elements, these HD transfers look incredibly good.
Howard’s cutely innocuous sci-fi tale of an alien race helping elderly white people arrives in an adequate Blu-ray package.
It has enough flickers of brilliance to make it essential viewing for fans of its cast, Lumet, and/or Tennessee Williams.
One of those intentionally divisive pictures with which you probably already know your reaction.
It’s time to take Potemkin out of the lecture hall, out of the museum, and recognize it for the vital, alive piece of cinema it is.
I could watch Anna Karina compose a letter for hours.
McTiernan’s film arrives on Blu-ray confident in its own sleek presentation and the chemistry of its central, seductive diptych.
Criterion does right by Olivier Assayas’s lovely tone poem, his best film since Late August, Early September.
A solid DVD presentation of a highly dubious documentary experience.
A great gateway for fans of Milos Forman’s later films, Loves of a Blonde is subtle, silly, and even poignant in its own way.
Someday this fascinating curio by a major European filmmaker will get its full due.
Not even the Dark Lord Sauron would want to put his name to this movie.
Nicolas Cage’s performance is some kind of tour de force.
A decent enough preservation of an over-praised cult oddity.
Rock Hudson, pirates, Raoul Walsh standing by.
Completely alienating, Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor accomplishes what it sets out to.
This is a disappointing DVD package of Ritchie’s slick but giddily inspired Sherlock Holmes reboot
Criterion is every bit as committed in their treatment of contemporary filmmakers as they are with the old masters.
“You tired of being stupid yet?” Sanjuro’s insult is praise: He loves you, too.
Reasons to love Yojimbo: “Ask the horny old sake brewer what he says to that!”
This set is a wonderfully detailed presentation of an interesting, troubling, schizophrenic, more than occasionally stupid series.