Mills’s films might be called fragmentary if not for their unifying spirit of psychological inquiry.
Own Jeanne Dielman if you must. Just don’t fall asleep on her bed.
Criterion’s Blu-ray presents the film’s pageantry in the best possible light.
At the very least, I Love You, Man warns us of the risks of telling someone to clean up their dog’s shit.
The extras provide further evidence of the links between reading trashy women’s magazines and the pursuit of plastic surgery.
It’s no Superbad, but Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart’s sterling chemistry make Adventureland worthwhile.
Tati’s glorious film folly inches that much closer to the 70mm ideal in Criterion’s new Blu-ray.
A dizzying, camptastic explosion of pulp-realist aesthetics and performance, Julia wins Tilda Swinton another Oscar in my wildest dreams.
Awesome packaging, per usual, from Benten, but The GoodTimesKid isn’t for the faint of heart.
Imagine awakening from a series of grim nightmares to find your body covered in dried blood and ejaculate.
Osamu’s barbed cartoons meta-examine the same ground they break.
We’re past the tipping point where the faithfulness to the source material has unquestionably revealed its shortcomings.
The film is a masterpiece, but not for the faint of heart.
From the fidgety lead performances to the seemingly Ron Howard-inspired aesthetic, it’s rife with bad choices.
Give me Speed Racer instead—hell, even Wicked Stepmother.
If this release is remembered in the future, it’s for introducing a new generation to the music of Kenny Loggins.
Though not without voyeuristic subtext and sleazy kicks, Torso makes for a pretty anemic bloodfest.
Repulsion refers to a lot of other movies, but its queasy black humor is entirely Polanski.
The DVD release of this bold, long-unavailable tour de force should be an event to Godard-heads everywhere.
Aside from some gray flickering in a scene or two, Raoul Coutard’s imagery bursts with color and soft-edged, subversive beauty.
The only surprise to this by-the-numbers action thriller is that it didn’t go straight to video-and that it doesn’t star Jon Voight.