Tag: crime
A PRIVATE LIFE Review: Jodie Foster Investigates Mystery. In French, No Less.
Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira and Mathieu Amalric also star in Rebecca Zlotowski's sixth feature, a mix of situational comedy and cozy mystery.
Playback: Nia DaCosta, Life on the Edge, from LITTLE WOODS to 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
Nia DaCosta gravitates toward stories -- whether intimate dramas, horror reinventions, literary adaptations, or major franchises -- where her characters are pushed into extreme situations. Across these films, human vulnerability and choice remain central, with complex interior lives sharpening as...
Opening This Week: 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE, NIGHT PATROL, SPACE/TIME, KILLER WHALE
Plus: 'All You Need Is Kill,' 'A Useful Ghost,' 'A Private Life,' 'Sound of Falling,' 'Maldoror.'
Now Streaming: TEHRAN S3, Spy Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Niv Sultan reprises her starring role in the thriller series, alongside Shaun Toub and Shila Omni, joined by Hugh Laurie.
Now Streaming: MARSHMALLOW, Deeper Than It Looks
Also debuting this week: strangeness in 'A Desert' on Shudder, Sydney Sweeney in 'Americana' on Starz.
Playback: Park Chan-wook, Pushed to the Limit, from JOINT SECURITY AREA to NO OTHER CHOICE
Park Chan-wook studies how vengeance and obsession can narrow the mind, reducing problems to a single, violent answer. The Korean director returns to characters consumed by the promise of moral clarity. Park is perhaps best known for his exacting compositions...
Opening This Week: ANACONDA Bites, NO OTHER CHOICE Hunts Jobs, THE PLAGUE Plunges Into Terror
Plus: 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' 'Marty Supreme,' 'Song Sung Blue,' 'The Choral.'
Criterion in March 2026: Tsui Hark's THE BLADE, Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, More
Springtime -- specifically, March 2026 -- brings many good gifts for home video enthusiasts from The Criterion Collection, beginning with Tsui Hark's superlative action epic The Blade (1995) in 4K (?!). I love the official description, so allow me to...
Exclusive: MALDOROR Trailer Debut, Fabrice du Welz's Gripping Police Procedural
Inspired by true events, Fabrice du Welz's police procedural Maldoror is heading to VOD and Digital next month, but we have the exclusive trailer debut ... now! Our own Martin Kudlac saw the film during the 2024 Venice Film Festival;...
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.
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.
Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION
Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
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...
Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery
Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday.
Now Streaming: GOOD BOY, SANGRE DEL TORO, TRAIN DREAMS
Plus: 'After the Hunt' and 'The Roses.'
THE RED SPECTACLES Review: Mamoru Oshii's Absurdist Take on Authoritarianism Gets a Second Life
Memory hardens around those who experience violence, turning guilt or pain into an armor they must carry long after the wounds close. That burden is the doorway into Mamoru Oshii's The Red Spectacles, a film where guilt materializes as a...
KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR: Official Trailer & Poster For Quentin Tarantino's Epic Action Film
Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films were a bit of a thing. In our household, anyway. I think I went to see Volume 1 every day the weekend it opened in theaters. I had bought Japanese lobby cards, framed them, and...
Playback: Lynne Ramsay, Emotional Ruptures from RATCATCHER to DIE MY LOVE
Lynne Ramsay studies how pain takes shape. The Scottish director harnesses a poetic, sensory style in which her intimate stories of grief are barbed and transcendent. She is drawn to haunted characters, whether that be openly or implicitly. These stories...
Friday One Sheet: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Seizing on the final 'set-piece' of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, French designer Melanie Danna created this alternate poster for the film, with the title text highlighting the 'bumps in the road', as it were. Also note the...
