Mostly remembered for its plot twist, Jordan’s film is marked by a deep sense of empathy.
The home-video format, which encourages binge viewing, could serve to accentuate the nagging hollowness of the show’s busy-body plotting.
The final film in Antonioni’s modernist trilogy comes to Blu-ray with a sparkling transfer.
Rollerball remains a poignant and unusually prescient vision of our world as defined by Walmart and Exxon-Mobil.
Criterion’s upgrade of Anderson’s ambitious The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is one of the label’s finest packages.
This 40th-anniversary package is reason enough to add Brooks’s classic to your collection.
Herzog’s idiosyncratic horror classic remains a vital conversation between two distinct generations of brilliant German filmmakers.
Kiarostami’s film comes to the Criterion Collection as perhaps the most elegant reference disc ever made.
The film is Wilder’s definitive expression of his master theme of vice as the most reliable and trustworthy gauge of reality.
Ford’s bitter revisionist western is a must-see for fans of the director, as well as those who mistake him for a soft sentimentalist.
Reconstructed and reclaimed as a classic 10 years ago, the film is done a disservice with a welcome but oddly incomplete combo package.
One of Eastwood’s best films comes to high-def with an aggressively scrubbed image that robs it of some of its beauty.
It’s a heady trip best taken for the sensory provocation of its eye-popping set designs and soundtrack.
Sophie’s Choice isn’t resonant as a tale of an aspiring writer, a Holocaust history, or trauma parable.
The film is a searing sociological X-ray that lays bare the true cost of Italy’s early-’60s economic miracle.
Losey’s Stranger on the Prowl suggests at least as much formal experimentation as it does political restlessness.
The film set the thematic template and aesthetic model for Siegel’s career.
Sorcerer is the nightmarish inverse of mellifluous fantasia: a symphonic, boundary-pushing masterwork.
This beautifully composed, workmanlike noir will be enjoyable to those looking to trace the evolution of Sirk’s complex mise-en-scène.
Decades ahead of its time, Dreyer’s silent satire can now be fully appreciated for its modern acting, nuanced invention and sly wit.
Godard’s lively screed against cinema’s power to recreate time gets a solid, attentive A/V transfer.