Over the last few years, the comedy troupe known as Monty Python has made their 4K UHD debuts and every transfer thus far has looked incredible. Whether it be a standard amray for The Meaning of Life (1983) or a… Read More ›
Criterion Collection
Filmmaker Tsui Hark’s violent wuxia deconstruction “The Blade” joins The Criterion Collection with a first-time 4K UHD restoration.
Martial arts fans have it so good right now; it’s truly incredible. With deals being made to restore and re-print various titles out of Hong Kong, what was once hard to find (Hard Boiled) and barely accessible on HD (Rumble… Read More ›
The Criterion Collections brings the nuclear fallout of “Testament” back to life in a stunning restoration.
Originally made for television, Lynne Littman’s 1983 film Testament takes a human, grounded approach to the sensationalized topic of nuclear devastation. Based on the short story “The Last Testament” by Carol Amen, Testament is as prevalent today (given recent world… Read More ›
“The Man Who Wasn’t There” has its day in court via a new 4K UHD restoration from The Criterion Collection.
What happens when a reliable man decides to become unreliable? Should he be held to account? Who’s to say? The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) is finally getting its day in court, entering the Criterion Collection on February 24th, 2026…. Read More ›
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s dramatic thriller “Cloud” gets a slim-but-deep home edition as part of the sublabel of Criterion Premieres.
It feels safe to say that capitalism had a solid run, but needs to step down. At this point, there’s nothing in this world that doesn’t feel commodified to the point that ethical consumption, let alone ethical existence, is an… Read More ›
Criterion brings a third format of Jacques Tati’s “PlayTime” into the Collection.
The world of physical media is constantly changing and evolving, impacting the way collectors gather movies. Criterion is occasionally regarded as the benchmark of the crème of the crop for collectors, however, with them continuing to dip their toes into… Read More ›
A complex love story brilliantly masked in a survival story and political thriller, “Kiss of the Spider Woman” receives a beautiful digital restoration, courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Two prisoners. Two different pasts. One love story that keeps them going. Set within the Brazilian military dictatorship, Héctor Babenco’s 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman (adapted by Leonard Schrader, based on Manuel Pieg’s 1976 novel) is about two… Read More ›
Edward Yang’s “Yi Yi” gets a boost to 4K UHD as it enters The Criterion Collection
Life is like a dyad-god, both finite and infinite. Your life is finite because it ends, but Life goes on regardless of how you live yours. Few things narrow as quickly as the infinite possibilities of a newborn’s life, except… Read More ›
“Birth” is given a second life on 4K from The Criterion Collection.
If you’ve never seen a Jonathan Glazer film before, his second feature may be his most accessible in terms of content and execution. Birth (2004) is weird and unsettling, but not in the same ways as Under the Skin (2013)… Read More ›
Reginald Hudlin’s feature film directorial debut and seminal teen comedy “House Party” receives a 4K UHD edition via The Criterion Collection.
“All my memories are movies.” – George Clooney as Jay Kelly in Jay Kelly (2025). As a child born on the cusp of 1981, I reside firmly on line between Gen X and Millennial, meaning that I can remember a… Read More ›
Jim Jarmusch’s acid western “Dead Man” re-enters The Criterion Collection with a brand-new 4K UHD edition.
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has built an indie career leaning into his eccentricities and mixing his artistic sensibilities. It’s how we get the zombie apocalypse comedy The Dead Don’t Die (2019), the melancholic vampiric love story Only Lovers Left Alive (2013),… Read More ›
Tell ‘em Large Marge sent ya when you pick up The Criterion Collection’s 4K UHD restoration of Tim Burton’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.”
One can never really know the impact something can have until well after a moment in time has passed. Considering the stories shared by the creative team behind Tim Burton’s feature film debut, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, in the featurette “I… Read More ›
“Salaam Bombay!”, Mira Nair’s acclaimed gem about love, friendship, and tragedy on the streets of Mumbai receives a digital restoration release courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Mira Nair’s first narrative feature, the Indian Hindi-language drama Salaam Bombay!, is as much a documentary as it is a narrative of Bombay’s (now Mumbai’s) loud and chaotic street life. Even though its story and characters are crafted by Nair… Read More ›
A great documentary of one great filmmaker watching another, Les Blank’s “Burden of Dreams” gets a 4K re-release courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
In the rare event where game recognizes game or a filmmaker puts his camera on another filmmaker, there’s no telling what moments of unflinching honesty and remarkable ambition you will find. In his 1982 film Burden of Dreams, documentarian Les… Read More ›
John Hughes’s nostalgic, honest portrayal of teenage life in the 1980s,“The Breakfast Club,” is now available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray Combo Special Edition from The Criterion Collection.
Being a teenager is never easy or not confusing, unless you’re one of the cool kids who is popular and pampered. Most of us were not one of the cool kids in high school; we were the bookworms, the science… Read More ›
David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds” joins The Criterion Collection with a bare-bones Blu-ray release.
Director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence) is known to many as a director of “body horror” stories. Underneath that horror, those stories remain riddled with deeper, more profound themes. His latest film, The Shrouds (2024), now available via Criterion… Read More ›
Guillermo del Toro’s black and white vision of “Nightmare Alley” finally gets a physical release thanks to The Criterion Collection.
In 2021, the world got to see Guillermo del Toro’s (Frankenstein) newest feature, Nightmare Alley, which he co-wrote with Kim Morgan (Seances) and adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel of the same name. While there was some divide on this… Read More ›
David Cronenberg’s neo-western “A History of Violence” joins The Criterion Collection with a 4K UHD edition nearly 20 years since its initial release.
Adaptations are nothing new. Whether it’s transcribing oral tales to print or print to the stage or stage to the screen, there’s a long tradition of this and it’ll likely continue for as long as audiences hunger for stories in… Read More ›
David Lynch’s dreamlike, painfully beautiful, and brutal “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” is available on 4K UHD & Blu-ray Combo edition from The Criterion Collection.
My mother and I never shared any common interests until the spring of 1990 when we were introduced to the world of Twin Peaks. Full of quirky characters who seemed trapped in time in the beautiful Pacific Northwest town of… Read More ›
One of Jacques Audiard’s early hits, the unique romantic thriller “Read My Lips”, comes home to Blu-Ray, courtesy of The Criterion Collection.
Before he brought us the polarizing 2024 crime musical Emilia Pérez, the Palme d’Or winning 2015 Dheepan, and the 2009 critically acclaimed gangster film A Prophet, director Jacques Audiard brought us the complex romance thriller Read My Lips in 2001…. Read More ›