THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY 4K Review: Bob Hoskins in Seminal Gangster Flick
Bob Hoskins, joined by Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan, gives an intense performance of religious proportions in classic London crime film.
Screen Anarchists On NOSFERATU
Last week we posted an article listing our favorite films from 2024, and one entry in it was Robert Eggers' new take on Nosferatu. It was notable for at least two reasons. One: it only premièred at Christmas so not...
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2024
Hello all of you readers, we have officially entered 2025 so it's time to have a look back at 2024. We asked everyone here what their favorites were, and 24 writers gave a list. On those were a grand total...
THE LAST EMPEROR 4K Review: Sweeper of Oscars, Prisoner of History
Bernardo Bertolucci's Best Picture winner arrives to Criterion 4K UHD.
I AM CUBA 4K Review: Near Perfect, A Reeling Contradiction
Director Mikhail Kalatozov's enigmatic look at pulsating revolutionary Cuba is "reality through bombast."
ALL OF US STRANGERS 4K Review: Andrew Haigh's Ghostly Film of Queer Isolation
Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell star in Andrew Haigh's acclaimed 2023 drama.
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID 4K UHD Review: Sam Peckinpah Unmasked
Sam Peckinpah's got James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan's number in a new edition from the Criterion Collection.
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of The First Half Of 2024
The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...
QUERELLE Blu-ray Review: Docking with the Criterion Collection
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final feature is visually inventive and darkly queer.
TUESDAY Review: Is A24's Latest Prestige Oddity for the Birds?
For Julia Louise-Dreyfus, Tuesday's gone with the wind.
MOONAGE DAYDREAM 4K UHD Review: Rocking Criterion
Filmmaker Brett Morgen interprets David Bowie's many ch-ch-changes in a deeply transcendent, experimental immersion film.
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Reviews: Surprisingly Good
With the newest installment, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, just days away, it's a good time to revisit a film that surprised many of us, including the studio, I suspect, since it pushed the release date until early...
TO DIE FOR 4K Review: This Film Kills
Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Casey Affleck commit murder for fame and sex in Gus Van Sant's frigid satire.
Screen Anarchists On DUNE: PART TWO
Back when we created our ScreenAnarchy top-10 list of 2021, I lamented the fact that I didn't rally our troops to make a group review for Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Because even though the film topped the leaderboard that year, opinions...
ERIC ROHMER'S TALES OF THE FOUR SEASONS Blu-ray Review
Four films make up a year's worth of light drama from French New Wave icon Éric Rohmer in a new set from the Criterion Collection.
LONE STAR 4K Review: John Sayles' Texas Tale Shines Bright with Criterion
Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey star in John Sayles' layered tale of injustice and reconciliation.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO 4K Review: An Honest to Goodness Great Film
Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, Tilda Swinton, David Bradley, and Christoph Waltz star in the award-winning stop-motion take on the dark fairy tale.
MEAN STREETS 4K Review: Martin Scorsese Takes On His Home Turf
Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel ignite Scorsese's breakthrough movie, now on 4K from Criterion.
ScreenAnarchy's Top 10 Films Of 2023
Hello all of you readers, and the best wishes for 2024 from all of us here at ScreenAnarchy! One of those best wishes is that we hope you will all see many good films. May our enjoyment of cinema be...
MICHAEL HANEKE: TRILOGY Review: Cooly Unsettling
Criterion collects Michael Haneke's first features, which form a rewardingly challenging triptych.