Scorsese’s manic best picture winner looks sharper than ever on Warner’s UHD disc.
By New Yorker Video standards, an above-average image and audio presentation of Sembène’s masterpiece.
A must-see film in a DVD package for die-hards and Truffaut completists.
Wolfe delivers a solid DVD package for Evans’s film.
Strong performances and a fiery aggressive tone keep things moving, but the film is dated and not particularly deep.
Even the film’s DVD evokes a triumph of technical style over substance.
Pity Christian Bale for having had to lose so much weight for so little.
The extras compiled for this DVD edition of A Dirty Shame are true to the anarchic spirit of the film’s maker.
The all-time favorite film of men who like to walk in on their friends having sex.
The reds and blues are as saturated as they should be, though there is sometimes loss of detail in the night scenes.
Sidney Poitier steals the film and makes it a cut above what it is: a holier-than-thou PSA.
Neurotic seesaw framing and James Dean’s pyrotechnical debut cannot hide the fact that East of Eden’s expiration date has passed.
Giant defines the word interminable, and watching it just once is guaranteed to lop at least a year off your life.
The aesthetic make-up of the film isn’t only uniquely its own but it’s also too cool for words.
Time has not blunted the hard-edged anger of Fugitive.
Title be damned, Sturges’s classic isn’t a bad way to spend a day.
This may be the best Behind the Music special you’ll never see on VH1.
Those seeking another 1939 Ford revisionist history lesson should seek out Young Mr. Lincoln.
A shoddy presentation of a great film.
Bitchy Isabel would be much better company to have a drink with than Larry Darrell, zealot of the pure.
To those willing to endure A Farewell To Arms: Don’t be a hero!