Reviews
HIS GIRL FRIDAY 4K Review: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell Wage One Battle After Another
Directed by Howard Hawks, Criterion's new 2-disc edition includes Lewis Milestone's 'The Front Page,' making for easy comparison between original and remake.
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2 Review: Redundant Sequel Struggles To Justify Its Existence
Between a fervid fanbase in the millions, multi-generational, cross-over appeal, and a sizable return on investment, the envy of studio executives everywhere, a sequel to 2023’s gateway horror hit, Five Nights at Freddy’s, the cinematic adaptation of Scott Cawthon’s ultra-popular indie...
ROSEMEAD Review: True Story About a Mother's Love That's Too Centered on the Son
It's always odd when a film is based on a true story that is either old enough or simply wasn't major enough news that we don't all know it. Does it count as "spoilers" for the movie to direct people...
KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR Review: Cycles and Consequences
Uma Thurman stars in Quentin Tarantino's revenge epic.
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! 4K Review: Talking About the Weather
Powell & Pressburger completists will be pleased with the new transfer.
LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS Review: A Phenomenal Directorial Debut
Jara Sofija Ostan and Mina Švajger star in Urška Djukić's remarkable film that's about more than coming of age.
YOUNG BLONDES, STALKED AND MURDERED Review: Beguiling Hollywood Anti-Slasher
Samantha Carroll stars in director Nick Funess' disquieting film.
Jacques Audiard Returns to Criterion with Two Acclaimed Crime Thrillers
Jacques Audiard made his Criterion debut back in 2017 with his seventh feature film, Dheepan, and eight years later he's back with two of his earlier titles. Like that movie, Read My Lips and The Beat That My Heart Skipped...
THE SECRET AGENT Review: Much Smarter Than It Pretends To Be
Kleber Mendonça Filho's epic stars Wagner Moura.
THE TALE OF SILYAN Review: Astonishingly Precise Visual Storytelling
The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and...
THE THING WITH FEATHERS Review: Big Bird and the Stages of Grief
There are a wide variety of memes on the Internet, where famous movie characters make alternative choices at the start of their story (Neo takes the blue pill, Harry doesn’t go with Hagrid, and so forth), and the end credits...
LEFT-HANDED GIRL Review: Vibrant Slice of Taipei Night Market Life
Shih-Ching Tsou directed and co-wrote Taiwan's official Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film; Sean Baker co-wrote.
Now Streaming: BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI Starts Flat
Wong Kar-Wai's first television series, now on The Criterion Channel.
ZOOTOPIA 2 Review: Sequel Ups the Laughs, Set Pieces, and Positive Messaging
While it’s far from a shock that Zootopia, Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award-winning, billion-dollar-earning, box-office hit, spawned a not-unexpected sequel, taking the better part of a decade to reach IP-ready audiences certainly qualifies as one (a shock, that is). ...
WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY Review: When Murders Happen
Rian Johnson's new mystery stars Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.
HAMNET Review: Far More Than the Sum of Its Considerable Parts
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in Chloe Zhao's new film.
Now Streaming: MEAT KILLS, Or Rather Misguided People Do...
Hailed as "the bloodiest Dutch horror movie ever" and proudly touting the NC17 rating it got during its States-based festival run, Martijn Smits' Vleesdag a.k.a. Meat Kills seems to be gunning for the gorehounds. As such I almost didn't see...
ETERNITY Review: Shockingly Charming Afterlife Love Story That Shouldn't Work, But Does
Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, John Early and Da'Vine Joy Randolph star in director David Freyne's film.
SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE Review: Worse Things Than Death. Unleash Hell. And So Forth.
Jorrma Tommila and Stephen Lang battle to the death in Jalmari Helander's pulverizing action thriller.
PLURIBUS Review: The Consequences of Love
Rhea Seehorn stars in Vince Gilligan's new science fiction drama on Apple TV.
