Twisting the Knife collects four taut late-period exercises in ambiguity from the great Claude Chabrol.
Time hasn’t dimmed the ability of these three late-period masterworks by the Spanish surrealist to provoke and confound.
Even Blaise Pascal would wager you have everything to lose by not picking up Criterion’s upgrade of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.”
Throughout, François Ozon assiduously avoids sensationalism, compiling the story with an almost journalistic sobriety.
Director Jacques Doillon’s shrewd ellipses emphasize time as a great and uniting humbler and thief.
The film is a trim farce with no blood flowing under its skin, as it’s all construction, setup, and payoff.
You’ve got to give Lionsgate credit for putting a spotlight on Godard’s later, grumpier works.
Not everyone’s cup of tea, The Milky Way is paved with heretical intentions.
Criterion presents the films in their original 1.33:1 aspect ratios, though there is some controversy surrounding these transfers.
Three hours plus is a high price to find out that not every European TV miniseries can reach the heights of The Best of Youth.
Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe’s film remains ponderously stuck in lesser Merchant-Ivory territory.
Milky Way is intelligent but pretentious, sardonic but callous.