The Criterion Collection

Sympathy for a monster? For Time, critic Steven James Snyder writes, “As I became immersed in the new Criterion Collection release of Ishiro Honda’s original Godzilla this past weekend, I found myself moved to tears—mourning for a doomed . . . Read more »

UPDATE 08FEB2012: In the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim writes that these films are “endlessly interested in individual experience and idiosyncrasy, fully alert to the tragicomedy of human complexity and contradiction.” Read more »

“One of the great French films of the 1960s, Belle de jour is a masterful blend of fantasy and reality,” writes Matt Hough in a Home Theater Forum review of Luis Buñuel’s sensual and cerebral classic, now on Criterion DVD and Blu-ray. Read more »

It’s the time of year when the list makers do their heavy lifting, looking back over the preceding twelve months and deciding what was best and brightest. We’re happy to report that some of our 2011 releases have been turning up in such rankings. . . . Read more »

“Anyone under the illusion that movies have grown more sophisticated about sex as society has become (allegedly) more open should take a look at Design for Living,” writes Charles Taylor in the New York Times about the classic comedy, now available . . . Read more »

“Viewers enchanted by The Thief of Bagdad will need little encouragement to sample more early film work by the remarkable actor Sabu,” writes Glenn Erickson for Turner Classic Movies. Read more »

Critics are getting all fired up about Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men, and the verdict is in: This is “one of the greatest courtroom dramas ever made,” according to Matt Hough of Home Theater Forum, and one that “has only gained in impressive . . . Read more »

Nearly two decades after their release, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors films—Blue, White, and Red—are still eliciting ecstatic responses from critics. Read more »

“The great Italian cine-maestro Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1982 film, Identification of a Woman, is an excellent continuation of his better-known work from the ’60s and ’70s,” writes DVD Talk’s Christopher McQuain Read more »

“Most of the classic horror films of the early 1930s have been released and rereleased on home video to the point of surfeit and beyond. But one, in many ways the most disturbing, has remained elusive,” writes Dave Kehr Read more »