In 1949, Walt Disney and his animators wrapped up their package era with a two-short feature that’s still got the capacity to terrify 75 years later.
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Powell and Pressburger’s 1947 classic starts like a prestige drama and slowly but surely creeps into the realm of psychological terror.
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The 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s revolutionary ‘Pulp Fiction’ is fast approaching, but let’s give special attention to a less-than revolutionary movie that came out twenty years ago — on home video! — that QT slapped his name on.
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On the 30th anniversary of Tim Burton’s bonkers biopic, a celebration of the Oscar-winning work of Martin Landau.
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As the Criterion Channel celebrates the 100th birthday of Marcello Mastroianni, we recommend one of his undersung comedies for your streaming pleasure.
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Tarsem’s labor of love, years in the making, envisions a pirate’s life from a hospital bed in Hollywood’s early days.
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A half century after its release, Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic remains the definitive big-screen take on Hercule Poirot.
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A celebration of Francis Ford Coppola’s other 1983 S.E. Hinton adaptation — one of his strangest and most beautiful films.
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On the eve of the release of “A Different Man,” we examine director Aaron Schimberg and star Adam Pearson’s previous collaboration
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Milos Forman’s masterful biopic paints a complex portrait of Mozart as a man of both heart and genius.
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As this gangster classic re-enters the Criterion Collection, we offer an ode to Bob Hoskins’s most crucial contribution: his face.
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The quintessential opening song and credits sequence for the third James Bond film were the most crucial piece that helped establish the franchise for decades.
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