Criterion’s top-notch presentation offers yet another argument for the value of physical media.
Wes Anderson’s film is an often fascinating, wondrous exercise in complex narration and visual composition.
At its best, Oxygen successfully approximates the feel of an escape room.
Darius Marder’s film captures, with urgency and tenderness, just how enticing the residue of the past can be.
The disc perhaps definitively contextualizes the moral urgency of the film’s intricate aesthetic.
Anderson’s latest is described as a “love letter to journalists.”
In Barbara, the process of filmmaking is shown to be a nesting series of shells that allow one to be simultaneously freed and lost.
At Eternity’s Gate is both a fitting tribute to an artist who rebuffed conventional painting techniques, and a disappointingly self-indulgent exercise.
The film’s labored juxtapositions create fission, the feel of a director scrambling to dictate the game.
Through metaphors, Amalric analyzes his art while engulfing it in a preservative mystery.
Ismael’s Ghosts simultaneously collapses and expands Arnaud Desplechin’s entire body of work.
Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts is a lucid, free-form sprawl of stories nested within stories.
The insistence of Eugène Green’s gaze encourages us to look at the uncanny movements of the conscience.
A buoyant tribute, even if the pedigree of the project implies something more paradigm-shifting.
Arnaud Desplechin tries his hand at a coming-of-age tale with My Golden Days, and does so with equal doses of mature reflection and youthful impetuosity.
Guy Maddin’s indulgence in esoterica paradoxically leaves the film most vulnerable to the beating heart of this great artist of self-therapy.
The actors play off one another beautifully, but Sophie Fillières’s If You Don’t, I Will bottoms out just as it’s getting warmed up.
MPI drops this perversely engrossing film onto DVD with a reasonably strong transfer, but precious little in the way of extras.
Mathieu Amalric’s film abounds in guilt and grief, reveling in a general sense of hopelessly broken social connection.
This release is almost certainly a placeholder for a more illuminative future Criterion edition.