Criterion’s beautiful 4k transfer and an abundance of extras do justice to one of New Hollywood’s more complex and challenging social message movies.
This is a cerebral, 25-year-old film that follows the blueprint for today’s endless glut of superhero movies.
Olive Films’s high-def release of Sydney Pollack’s slickly oppression-conscious debut is an unfortunately slender package.
This box set is a great reminder of why the screen couple has long endured as one of the most attractive romantic duos to ever come out of Hollywood.
What was once a hot-topic message movie about the state of juvenile delinquency in inner city schools is now a dinosaur relic of the Eisenhower era.
Sidney Poitier steals the show in The Blackboard Jungle and makes it a cut above what it is: a holier-than-thou public service announcement.
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