Criterion’s release of Visions of Eight offers plenty of goodies not found in their 100 Years of Olympic Films box set.
In terms more familiar to the Olympiad, let’s call this set the Criterion Collection’s record time.
Most problematic is the way in which the Vietnamese are romanticized, as if they had not fought for their livelihoods and land, visceral and specific, but for ideals alone.
This sports doc is a handsome but uneven artifact of an era when politics and games seemed inextricable.
All Is Forgiven’s style may be hermetic, but all the better to keep the plot away from the melodrama it would’ve turned into in lesser hands.
This is a diverting but cool suspense puzzler whose payoff proves to be smaller and more mundane than its twisty, fluid setup.