The Babadook
An Australian horror movie summons a terrifying monster out of parental fears.
View ArticleL’Avventura
The shock has worn off Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 breakthrough, but that hasn’t made it any less powerful.
View ArticleLes Blank: Always For Pleasure
Criterion collects nearly 10 hours of Blank’s docs about food, music, and life in this set, showcasing films Werner Herzog say teach more about America than 500 books.
View ArticleSafe
Plagued by a mysterious allergy to everything, a woman seeks a cure in Todd Haynes’ 1995 masterpiece.
View ArticleInherent Vice
Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterful adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 mystery novel sends pot-smoking P.I. Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) on a case that signals the changing Southern California culture...
View ArticleThe Long Goodbye
Before Inherent Vice, there was Robert Altman’s definitive SoCal noir, which adapts a Raymond Chandler novel into a shaggy private-eye picture that’s full of hazy atmosphere and irreverent attitude.
View ArticleTales Of The Grim Sleeper
For two decades, a serial killer nicknamed the “Grim Sleeper” was able to slaughter prostitutes and crack addicts at will in his South Central neighborhood. Nick Broomfield’s damning documentary...
View ArticleMr. Turner
In this sumptuous yet earthy biopic about early-19th-century painter J.M.W. Turner, Mike Leigh profiles an artist whose personal failings are neither forgiven nor allowed to overwhelm his...
View ArticleWinter Sleep
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or-winning follow up to Once Upon A Time In Anatolia takes the form of a study in delusion and arrogance.
View ArticleTwo Days, One Night
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne offer yet another masterwork with this wrenching story about solar-panel-factory employee who asks her co-workers to give up their annual bonus so she can keep her job.
View ArticleSelma
Immediacy, in all its senses, defines Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic.
View ArticleSomething, Anything
Writer-director Paul Harrill stakes out new ground in the well-trodden territory of movie protagonists who check out of their lives. In this case, it’s a woman who re-evaluates her career and marriage...
View ArticleThe Duke Of Burgundy
All is not what it seems, in more ways than one, in a Peter Strickland-directed homage to European softcore, which has more than titillation on its mind.
View ArticleMy Winnipeg
Truth and tall tales collide in Guy Maddin’s whimsical reminiscence about his hometown, which mythologizes a place and a people who chose not to make a big deal about themselves.
View ArticleTimbuktu
Bamako’s Abderrahmane Sissako returns with a film about the Islamist takeover of Timbuktu that’s both tragic and effortlessly humane.
View ArticleThe Palm Beach Story
One of Preston Sturges’ best, funniest films tries to find out what happens to marriages after “happily every after.”
View ArticleDon’t Look Now
Nicolas Roeg’s chilly examination of grief and memory still looks ahead of its time.
View ArticleWhat We Do In The Shadows
Flight Of The Conchords’ Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement bring the show’s whimsy to a hilarious mockumentary about centuries-old vampires dealing with the mundanity of the real world.
View ArticleA Day In The Country
Jean Renoir’s 40-minute masterpiece, based on the Guy de Maupassant short story “A Country Excursion,” still impresses with its lush imagery, sexual candor, and exquisite proportionality.
View ArticleApproaching The Elephant
A documentary observes the chaotic first year at an experimental New Jersey school.
View ArticleBuzzard
A dark comedy considers life on the fringes of the American economy through the eyes of a character with the will, but not the wits, to scam his way to stability.
View ArticleThe Soft Skin
François Truffaut’s follow-up to a three-masterpiece run looks like a movie made by someone exploring tone, characterization, and his own skills.
View ArticleIt Follows
The fright runs deep in a symbolically rich new horror film from the director of The Myth Of The American Sleepover.
View ArticleSpring
A thoughtful second feature from the team behind Resolution uses the supernatural to explore intimate themes.
View ArticleGates Of HeavenVernon, FloridaThe Thin Blue Line
Now available on two Criterion Blu-rays—his first two films in one, the third in the other—Errol Morris’ verité portraits of eccentrics in Gates Of Heaven and Vernon, Florida look different than the...
View ArticleManos Sucias
Two estranged brothers venture from Buenaventura, Colombia up the Pacific coast with a cocaine-packed torpedo shell in tow in Josef Kubota Wladyka’s tense, beautifully shot, and socially attuned...
View ArticleAbout Elly
Finally making its U.S. theatrical debut, Asghar Farhadi’s devastating 2009 ensemble piece about a woman’s disappearance on vacation anticipates the riveting, prismatic drama of A Separation and The...
View ArticleClouds Of Sils Maria
Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart anchor a two-hander about intimacy and performance that cannily reflects the maturation of both its director and star.
View ArticleOdd Man Out
Two years before making The Third Man, director Carol Reed ventured into noir-like territory with this thriller starring a great James Mason as a wounded Irish nationalist seeking shelter in Northern...
View ArticleThe River
Director Jean Renoir worked in black-and-white his entire career—and then traveled to India for a sumptuous production that Martin Scorsese ranks as one of the most beautiful films ever made in color.
View ArticleKurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck
Enhanced by access to the artist’s archives, Brett Morgen’s look at the life of Kurt Cobain avoids rehashing familiar facts in favor of finding the man beneath them.
View ArticleMiami Blues
Adapted from Charles Willeford’s crime novel, George Armitage’s colorful 1990 Florida noir is by turns fizzy and menacing, and a brilliant showcase for Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Fred Ward.
View ArticleCooley High
A benchmark for black filmmaking in the 1970s, Michael Schultz’s film could be called an inner-city answer to American Graffiti if its memories of growing up in Chicago’s Near North Side weren’t so...
View ArticleAvengers: Age Of Ultron
Writer-director Joss Whedon improves on the first Avengers movie with an exciting, fast-paced superhero adventure that serves its many characters while weighing the difficulties of doing the right...
View ArticleThe Train
John Frankenheimer’s 1964 WWII film sends the black-and-white action film out in style.
View ArticleGoodfellas
Martin Scorsese’s gangster classic returns in a Blu-ray edition that just confirms its timelessness.
View ArticleMad Max: Fury Road
Director George Miller returns to his post-apocalyptic series for the first time since 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, setting a new standard for action while addressing tough philosophical...
View ArticleWhen Marnie Was There
The last movie currently on the Studio Ghibli docket, Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s gorgeous feature about an asthmatic girl who meets a strange friend in the country shows the animation house continuing to...
View ArticleHeaven Knows What
The directors of Lenny Cooke take on a feature drama, but their New York addiction story sticks close to real life, using largely non-professional actors and working from a memoir by their lead actor.
View ArticleTu Dors Nicole
It’s hard to build a movie entirely on grace notes, but Stéphane Lafleur’s gorgeous black-and-white reverie about youths in summer comes awfully close.
View ArticleSpy
After collaborating on Bridesmaids and The Heat, Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy come together for their funniest comedy to date, a sneakily progressive spy-movie parody about a meek, disrespected CIA...
View ArticleThe Wolfpack
While isolated and home-schooled in their Lower East Side apartment, six teenage brothers processed American culture through movies and moviemaking. Crystal Moselle’s raw but intimate documentary...
View ArticleDziga Vertov: The Man With The Movie Camera And Other Restored Works
Named one of the top 10 movies of all time in the most recent Sight And Sound poll, a restored version of The Man With The Movie Camera joins three lesser-known Dziga Vertov efforts on Blu-ray.
View ArticleThe Tribe
Set at a school for the deaf, a Ukrainian film eschews any sort of verbal language as it tells a rough story about non-conformity and its consequences in an isolated community.
View ArticleInside Out
The latest from Pixar takes an energetic but ultimately tender and sympathetic trip through the mind of a young girl experiencing traumatic life transitions.
View ArticleGabriel
Rory Culkin’s mesmerizing but not showy performance as a mentally ill young man anchors this stunning debut from writer-director Lou Howe.
View ArticleFive Easy Pieces
Bob Rafelson’s New Hollywood classic is remembered for its famous diner scene, but there’s much more to cherish about this character study, which explores the surprising roots of Jack Nicholson’s...
View ArticleCartel Land
A thrilling documentary explores the borderland where those on both sides of the drug war end up with dirty hands.
View ArticleAmy
Senna director Asif Kapadia unpacks the mysteries of Amy Winehouse’s tragic life with a heartbreaking documentary that exposes the toxic influences around her, and the mysteries at the core of her...
View ArticleValerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Jaromil Jires’ 1970 Czech New Wave classic delves into the subconscious of a 13-year-old girl, which takes her through a fantasy realm, but reflects the adolescent experience as well as any...
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