When we watch a new movie and see something we rarely see, it feels revolutionary. This could be about representation, sexuality, even nonlinear timelines. But when we watch an older film, it...
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...
When you pick movies nearly at random that are leaving the Criterion Channel, your life as a writer is never boring. When I began this column, one of my goals was to...
Of the many glories of watching movies on The Criterion Channel, one of the most satisfying is finding filmmakers' early works. The landscape of film being what it is, most promising artists...
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...
Films can be a lesson on thematic flexibility. Many films may have the same theme, but completely different ways of arriving at said theme and expressing it. Parenthood, in general, and motherhood,...
It is a brand new year and a new generation of movies are going to be inducted into the Criterion Criterion Hall Of Fame. The opening month is a great batch to...
The Criterion Channel has a mostly earned reputation for having a large collection focused mostly on “art house cinema.’ But as time passes, this definition likely changes. Let’s take Oscar-nominated films as...
