Bogdanovich’s affecting look at small-town Americana gets a terrific UHD upgrade.
A solid commentary track and handsome transfer should help raise this underrated film’s stock.
The history of Winter Kills is nearly as lurid and tangled as the conspiracy it depicts.
Gilliam’s visually inventive film gets a phenomenal 4K UHD upgrade from Criterion.
The series is patient enough to let us understand its central character’s trauma, but it doesn’t make us to wallow in it.
Shout! Factory’s release is stacked with enough goodies to satisfy a king-sized appetite for all things Kong.
Bad Times at the El Royale begins as a cheeky chamber drama before morphing into an expectation-busting blend of noir and pitch-black comedy.
Joseph Kosinski’s Only the Brave displays a kinship to Howard Hawks’s hard-nosed, old-fashioned pragmatism.
A parody of a parody, the film is so soulless that it makes its predecessor seem like a classic in retrospect.
The film’s emotional resonance feels hollow, watered down by an overstuffed plot that bites off more than it can chew.
Mahershala Ali’s performance self-effacingly articulates the humanity of a man that so many in our country would like to pretend is non-existent.
The stark atmosphere and the intimate focus on character drama keeps the action on a muted emotional keel.
Cutter’s Way belongs on the shelf of fans of both Cassavetian hyperreal melodrama and Pakula-esque political thrillers.
Mark Osborne’s The Little Prince reveals itself to be concerned with the blossoming of qualified idealism.
Terrence Malick’s juxtaposition of the beautiful and grotesque captures life as a Felliniesque carnival, at once sad and life-affirming.
This moody, under-seen, incredibly sexy romantic noir, a highpoint for its superb cast, receives a beautiful, appropriately reverent restoration.
Criterion’s Blu-ray for The Fisher King packs an audio/visual wallop, but is undermined by its transparent interest in communal naval-gazing.
As is often the case in films like this, Seventh Son is at its weakest when it tries to leaven its brink-of-disaster gravity with a little nerdy humor.
The internal crisis of its protagonist amounts to the flicking of an on/off switch rather than the ebb and flow of a consciousness being born.
The auspicious debut of one of the decade’s best directors arrives on Blu-ray with its intimate majesty impeccably preserved.