A strange controversy emerged recently over the film Licorice Pizza. Paul Thomas Anderson’s charming coming-of-age 70s story between a teenage child actor and older woman he finds attractive got some flack over...
The neverending desert and the heat melting the screen. The long halls of Britain’s headquarters in Cairo. The scores of fighters charging the terrain on camels. A soundtrack that captures Arabia’s exoticity....
In the shortest of all months, Criterion will have one new release every week. Three new films and one re-release make this February's slate full of romance for Valentine's Day, including a...
If you watch the end credits of a film, you will eventually read the following phrase or something very similar:
"The events and characters depicted in this movie are fictitious. Any similarity to...
I decided in the last year to start reading books about individuals in film history, especially those who wrote it themselves and express, in their own words, the backstage drama that went...
10. C’MON C’MON
Mike Mills should make films more often. Five years after 20th Century Women (which came six years after Beginners), he has again struck us with a low-key, heart-to-heart story in...
Neon has made its mark in just five years with its wide variety of releases coming from all over the world and their calculated campaigning for the Oscars. There's a reason Parasite...
It's finally time to run down my favorite films of 2021, but not for studio films (that's for Belfast). There were movies a-plenty coming in and out of the Criterion Channel, some...
