Category: Criterion Collection reviews
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DEMON POND 4K Review: Kabuki Is Better With Fish People
Masahiro Shinoda’s 1979 folk-horror apocalypse enters the Criterion Collection
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TEEN APOCALYPSE TRILOGY 4K Review: Gregg Araki Takes You Back To The ’90s
SoCal ennui meets queer maximalism in a triad of slacker hangout movies.
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FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE 4K Review: The Personal Is Political
Artistry and identity intertwine in this new restoration of Chen Kaige’s Palme D’Or-winning classic.
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BOUND 4K Review: “Criterion Closet Picks” Just Got a Whole Lot Less Closeted
The Wachowskis finally take their place in The Criterion Collection with this week’s release of their debut feature in a gleaming new transfer.
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PEEPING TOM 4K Review: You Like To Watch, Don’t You?
Restored to the Criterion Collection, Michael Powell’s answer may disturb you.
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ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Blu-ray Review: Refusing the Blood Money
watching the discourse industrial complex dissect every word and pause in jonathan glazer’s Oscar speech with my left eye while writing this review of ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED and the moral obligations of art and arts institutions with my right
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4K Review: TRAINSPOTTING Still Lusty After All These Years
Danny Boyle’s trendsetter re-joins the Criterion Collection in a superb 4K remaster.
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4K Review: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, Peter Bogdanovich’s American Elegy
The Criterion Collection continues to build out their appreciable stack of 4K UHD releases with a new 3-disc edition of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, featuring the 1971 film on both 4K and blu-ray platters, and an additional blu-ray for the lesser-loved 1990 sequel, Texasville.
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Blu-ray Review: DRYLONGSO joins the Criterion collection
Rescued from 1990s obscurity by a sharp new transfer, Cauleen Smith’s DIY feature is a treat to revisit. Read on!
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THELMA & LOUISE Blu-ray Review: Soaring Into the Criterion Collection
A gregarious polyglot as a filmmaker, Ridley Scott has tried a bit of everything. By the time Thelma & Louise hits screens in 1991, he has already made two of the most important science fiction films of all time, and has tried his hand at historical drama, fantasy, and neo-noir. (In the thirty years since,…