Schrader’s film chronicles a man’s harrowing descent into a netherworld of total depravity.
This Blu-ray continues Criterion’s marvelous minting and contextualization of beloved Columbia classics.
The film was a first sortie for William Peter Blatty’s all-out attack on unbelief in the summer of 1990.
Let’s just say that Carmen Maura, Jennifer Jones, and Bill Cosby have more in common than you might have thought.
I’m a compulsive. It’s no surprise that my list is full of movies about compulsion.
Give in to the "irresistible impulse" to put Criterion’s 600th spine number on your shelf.
This hardboiled, emotionally potent Cinemascope sonata of addiction and self-defeatism gets one of the best Blu-ray releases of the year.
Nothing revisionist, but this collection is a warm, pleasant reminder for fans and a good start for newbies.
Still no sign of the holy grail pie-fight sequence, but the Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove still preserves the film’s purity of essence.
Its status as the film that confirmed both Stanley Kubrick’s reputation and the arrival of beat-sick irreverence can no longer be retracted.
There is no lonelier American movie than The Hustler, and no better a flawed hero than “Fast” Eddie Felson.
The Hustler reaffirms your faith in the movies.