JFK still stands as possibly the purest camp artifact of American political cinema.
You can see just how much benefit the 4K format has to offer grainy, New Hollywood-era films.
Despite its sci-fi premise, the show’s storylines remain grounded in human experience.
The Straight Story receives a stellar release from Imprint that boasts a beautiful transfer and great slate of extras.
Chemistry counts for something, and Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek have it in spades in The Old Man & the Gun.
De Palma’s technique reaches a new volatility here.
The dialogue is at once easygoing in its candor and rigidly on-message about the corrosive nature of lies.
This relatively obscure 1970s sleaze-fest fails to entirely capitalize on the pairing of two of the great tough-guy actors of American cinema.
To movie fans, JFK is the centerpiece for any defense of the persuasive powers of the medium.
Badlands is perhaps most different from the rest of Terrence Malick’s oeuvre in its straightforward narrative continuity.
Malick’s beloved first film gets a somewhat light, though reverent, treatment from Criterion.
Cross your fingers that the film won’t pull a prom-stage fiasco and go splat.
There are approximately 12 films that could have been made from the various story strands found in this ensemble thriller.
From the schoolyard to the psych ward, the bully was a cinematic staple well before becoming a hot-button news topic.
A little more than table scraps, including the usual deleted scenes and making-of featurette.
If you’ve ever wanted to take the plunge into the deep end of Altman’s brainpan, Criterion’s impeccable Blu-ray presents the ideal jumping-off point.
The Help is almost always more successful relating black experience than either white brutality or magnanimity.
One major reason that Malick’s films are so divisive is that they’re so nakedly emotional, that he’s so blatantly aiming for the sublime.
One can practically hear the Oscar telecast’s orchestral music cuing up at the close of Robert Duvall’s every scene in Get Low.
Movies like this are all about authenticity.