Blu-ray Reviews

While the premise underlying Kiarostami’s 24 Frames may look strange on paper — in this, his final film, he animates 24 still images and presents them one-by-one — the result is a surprisingly rich work that explores beauty and time and allows its audience amply space to meditate amidst its beauty.

Dynamic performances by Peter Falk and John Cassavetes ignite Elaine May’s long-awaited entry into the Criterion Collection.

After decades of obscurity, Olivier Assayas’s Cold Water is finally available in a lovely edition from The Criterion Collection. This is as it should be. The film is a masterpiece.

The Criterion Collection’s new Blu-ray of Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is a shimmering presentation that makes the film — a dark exploration of faith, murder, and revenge — new again.

Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece of poetic cinema. The new Criterion Collection edition has a beautiful presentation of the film alongside several supplements that really delve into the film’s riches.

Criterion’s two-disc release of Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones is a superb presentation of a film that deserves attention, in no small part because it succeeds in entertaining with an intoxicating combination of irreverence and purity of heart.