Von Sternberg's final film leaps out of obscurity and onto Blu-ray
Blu-ray Reviews
Scott Nye
Trevor Reviews Michael Curtiz’s The Breaking Point [Criterion Collection Blu-Ray Review]
Michael Curtiz's The Breaking Point, an adaptation from one of Hemingway's lesser known novels, is a solid noir, thrilling and beautifully constructed. Criterion's new release will hopefully give the film the light it...
Trevor Berrett
David Reviews Sacha Guitry’s La Poison [Criterion Blu-Ray Review]
Sacha Guitry and Michel Simon take a stab at incisive, scandalous comedy, and get off scot free.
David Blakeslee
Scott Reviews Ronald Neame’s Hopscotch [Criterion Blu-ray Review]
The greatest film ever made (or so it seems) comes to Blu-ray.
Scott Reviews Luchino Visconti’s Conversation Piece [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
Visconti's penultimate film is a haunting, painful exploration of regret and jealousy.
Trevor Reviews Robert Bresson’s L’argent [Criterion Blu-ray Review]
The Criterion Collection presents Robert Bresson's final, nihilistic film, the masterpiece L'argent.
Scott Reviews Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker [Criterion Blu-ray Review]
How to present a stunning theatrical experience on home video? This is how.
David Reviews Albert Brooks’s Lost in America [Criterion Blu-Ray Review]
This road comedy explores the peril and potential of life outside the protective canopy of the Nest Egg.
Scott Reviews Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Daughter of the Nile [Masters of Cinema Blu-ray Review]
The first catalogue Hou film to hit Blu in the west proves an excellent starting point for the acclaimed director.
Joshua Reviews Robert Bresson’s L’argent [Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review]
The final film from Robert Bresson finally arrives on Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray, along with one of the company's best recent supplements.
Joshua Brunsting
Trevor Reviews Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs [Criterion Blu-Ray Review]
Bringing Straw Dogs back to in-print status, the new Criterion edition is a solid presentation of a complicated film.
Scott Reviews Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu [Criterion Blu-ray Review]
Mizoguchi's landmark ghost story is now available in a stunning, beautiful Blu-ray.
David Reviews Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog [Criterion Blu-Ray Review]
A definitive presentation of two important films from the earliest phase of Hitchcock's work.
Arik Reviews Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan [Criterion Collection Blu-ray review]
An exercise in wrapping truth in more palatable surroundings. This is a serious film, and one well worth it's audience's time.
Arik Devens
Joshua Reviews Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 [Blu-ray Review]
Maybe the company's most anticipated release since its predecessor, Criterion returns once again to their beloved World Cinema Project series for the year's best home video release.