Reviews of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs from Criterion.
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Ghost World (Blu-ray Review) 26 May, 2017
The Criterion Collection has done justice to 2001's 'Ghost World' with a beautiful new 4K transfer...More>>
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Young Girls of Rochefort, The (Blu-ray Review) 1 May, 2017
Spirited and sumptuous, yet with an overriding sense of melancholy due in great part to the...More>>
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Mildred Pierce (1945) (Blu-ray Review) 27 Feb, 2017
As an even niftier mix of “woman’s picture” and film noir than some have given it credit for...More>>
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Asphalt Jungle, The (Blu-ray Review) 19 Dec, 2016
The granddaddy of meticulously high-scale robbery pics remains as vital and robust as ever, though...More>>
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Valley of the Dolls: Special Edition (Blu-ray Review) 3 Oct, 2016
This new release of the box office hit of Jacqueline Susann’s majestically trashy best-seller is...More>>
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Taste of Honey, A (Blu-ray Review) 12 Sep, 2016
Director Tony Richardson’s opened-up movie of young Shelagh Delaney’s stage play 'A Taste of...More>>
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Blu-ray Review) 6 Sep, 2016
Stig Bjorkman’s exceptional Ingrid Bergman documentary turns out to be the kind of...More>>
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Le Amiche (Blu-ray Review) 27 Jun, 2016
Michelangelo Antonioni’s third fictional feature is pure Region A Criterion: super new print and...More>>
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In a Lonely Place (Blu-ray Review) 9 May, 2016
As an artful hybrid of film noir and what used to be called the “woman’s picture,” this now...More>>
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Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates, The (Blu-ray Review) 11 Apr, 2016
The four JFK-oriented documentaries here are 'Primary,' 'Adventures on the New Frontier,' 'Crisis'...More>>
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I Knew Her Well (Blu-ray Review) 29 Feb, 2016
This vastly underseen Italian import, about someone without too much ammo at her disposal trying to...More>>
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Bitter Rice (Blu-ray Review) 25 Jan, 2016
An almost perfect blend of genuine Italian neo-realism and arthouse sexploitation. More>>
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Downhill Racer (Blu-ray Review) 14 Dec, 2015
Director Michael Ritchie’s debut is the best fictional movie about skiing — ever. Though Robert...More>>
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Brood, The (Blu-ray Review) 26 Oct, 2015
Only in a Criterion bonus section can you ever hope to find an extended “Merv Griffin Show”...More>>
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Day for Night (Blu-ray Review) 24 Aug, 2015
Francois Truffaut’s more joyous than ever love song to filmmaking (but most of all to film crews)...More>>
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River, The (Blu-ray Review) 18 May, 2015
Set in what feels like a timeless era that has nothing directly to do with the postwar...More>>
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Sullivan's Travels (Blu-ray Review) 4 May, 2015
'Sullivan’s Travels' is a strange movie of contradictions, just as director Preston Sturges was...More>>
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Thin Blue Line, The (Blu-ray Review) 13 Apr, 2015
The prodigious list of amazing things about Errol Morris’ landmark miscarried-justice buster...More>>
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Ride the Pink Horse (Blu-ray Review) 6 Apr, 2015
An oddly beguiling genre scrambler that goes against a slew of grains, this cultist cause seems to...More>>
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Palm Beach Story, The (Blu-ray Review) 9 Feb, 2015
An uncommonly knockabout farce even by Preston Sturges standards — yet also visually lush enough...More>>
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