For its first 4K UHD package, the Criterion Collection gives David Lynch’s masterpiece its best home video presentation to date.
The episode’s frequent matched pairs and expository repetitions seem to draw attention to themselves.
The film finally nets the beautiful, evocative disc it’s long deserved, in a rare case of reality fulfilling a dream.
The film is impersonal and populated with wisps of characters who spend most of the running time wandering around in the dark yelling at one another.
In the Valley of Elah is so obviously plotted it could have been scripted by the inflatable autopilot from Airplane!
The Messengers suffers from shamelessly thudding banality.