The film makes a strong impact in addressing cultural concerns that remain as unsettling and provocative as they must have been in 1962 - though perhaps for different reasons than what the film's original viewers had to...
Blu-ray Reviews
David Blakeslee
Joshua Reviews Alexander Sokurov’s Faust [Blu-ray Review]
The latest from Alexander Sokurov is one of the most intriguing films of the last handful of years.
Joshua Brunsting
Sean Reviews David Lynch’s Eraserhead [Blu-Ray Review]
The twisted and beautiful world of David Lynch is finally in the Collection.
Sean Hutchinson
Scott Reviews Walerian Borowczyk’s Goto, Isle of Love [Arrow Films Blu-ray Review]
Borowczyk's first live-action feature plunges us into a surreal, darkly hilarious dictatorship.
Scott Nye
Scott Reviews Walerian Borowczyk’s Short Films & Mr. and Mrs. Kabal’s Theatre [Arrow Films Blu-ray Review]
The first set of Arrow's Borowczyk releases provides a tremendous introduction to the filmmaker, and is of tremendous value all its own.
Scott Reviews F.W. Murnau’s Faust [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Murnau's final German film is the culmination of his accomplishments to that point.
Scott Reviews Seijun Suzuki’s Branded to Kill [Blu-ray Review]
Suzuki's surrealist gangster picture comes to high definition in the UK.
Scott Reviews Ernst Lubitsch’s Madame Dubarry [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Lubitsch takes a raunchy view of the years preceding the French Revolution.
Scott Reviews André de Toth’s The Other Love [Blu-ray Review]
The 1947 melodrama offers a wonderful Stanwyck performance in a rather tepid narrative.
David Reviews Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz [Dual-Format Review]
The release of Fosse's blistering and entertaining exercise in self-excoriation also marks the end of Criterion's dual-format experiment.
Scott Reviews Elio Petri’s L’Assassino [Blu-ray Review]
Petri's debut is a fierce, uncompromising examination of the many ways one can damn oneself.
Joshua Reviews Irving Pichel’s Mr. Peabody And The Mermaid [Blu-ray Review]
This forgotten comedy finally arrives on Blu-ray.
Joshua Reviews Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill [Dual-Format Review]
One of the best films of the 1980s finally comes to The Criterion Collection.
Scott Reviews Fritz Lang’s Frau im Mond [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Lang's visceral, thrilling, awe-inspiring sci-fi adventure gets one of the best transfers of the year.
Scott Reviews Hal Ashby’s Harold & Maude [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Scott finds this New Hollywood classic a deplorable portrait of how destruction, theft, and narcissism are actually forms of self-expression.