The Godfather films have set home-video standards for decades, and that trend continues with Paramount’s astonishing 4K restorations.
These films are as elegant as they are expansive, acutely perceptive and operatic in their high emotions.
Carol Morley’s film wants to blow our minds, but it succeeds only at rousing our boredom.
Bennett embodies slackness as an affectation, not a raw response to a culture of authenticity-killing productivity.
Rollerball remains a poignant and unusually prescient vision of our world as defined by Walmart and Exxon-Mobil.
Even a brief summary of the 1974-set film’s plot reveals a near-comical laundry list of recycled plot elements.
Not a big job but glowing with Criterion’s imperial sheen and resplendent sound mix. Maybe the less said the better?
Coppola’s ambition had always been his best friend and worst enemy.
Adam Sandler’s celebration of stunted-maturity stupidity continues unabated in That’s My Boy.
These shacks have giddily opened their doors to audiences through the years.
What emerges most saliently from Mintzer’s interviews is Gray’s commitment to the idea of problem solution in creating his style.
Detachment is enigmatically billed as a “Tony Kaye talkie,” but the director’s trademark shrillness renders its dialogue in all-caps hysteria.
It’s hard to look at Tuesday Weld’s career without feeling a tiny pang of regret for what could have been.
A modest Blu-ray presentation of Gray's uniquely sensitive drama that fittingly appears to have been sabotaged by the competition.
You’ll wish it stuck with Reeves’s unlikely casting as Lopakhin in the Chekhov play as its focus rather than just a cutesy twist.
Don’t let Mercy’s title fool you, as there’s no clemency here from cliché or pretentiousness.
For a project that aims to be so location specific, most of the segments seem largely isolated from their nominal settings.
The film grounds its story’s food frenzy and hysteria with a heartfelt wonderment.
Although the plot and star have been recycled, El Dorado is still a gold standard of the western genre.
The film provides a sweet, funny look at a young director finding his voice.