Mills’s films might be called fragmentary if not for their unifying spirit of psychological inquiry.
The image and sound presentation is muscular, but in the guilty annals of Mel Gibson’s career as an actor, the film is nothing but puny.
Criterion has now released the quintessential edition of Lang’s inscrutable masterpiece.
Yes, North Face is half a great movie. The mountain steals the show.
The film is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in a way that’s rare and essential. A sparkling Blu-ray transfer makes it a must-see.
Another forgettable sequel to a surprisingly successful horror picture.
Ride with the Devil appeals more to the ears than the eyes and is more literate than cinematic.
Though they’re a bit broad by today’s standards, Abbott and Costello routines are still required homework for nascent comedians.
The film offered no indication whatsoever that the animation renaissance of the ’90s awaited Disney.
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.