The Criterion Collection
Jul 3, 2020 — As The War of the Worlds is essentially a cautionary tale, each generation gets its own adaptation of H. G. Wells’s classic account of extraterrestrial invasion—one of the several seminal science-fiction novels, also including The Time Machine (1895) and The...
Jul 31, 2019 — Check out what’s in store next month on our streaming service!
The Daily
Jun 27, 2019 — Early reviews of the Hereditary director’s second feature may be mixed, but everyone agrees that it’s quite a trip.
The Daily
May 22, 2019 — Most critics won’t allow a comically absurd premise or a convoluted plot stand in the way of a good time.
The Daily
Nov 16, 2018 — Critics Serge Daney and V. F. Perkins and filmmakers Dziga Vertov, William Friedkin, and Alfonso Cuarón are among the subjects of this week’s highlights.
May 10, 2018 — What goes into staging the perfect on-screen kiss? Director Sofia Coppola and actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett look back on shooting a passionate make-out session in The Virgin Suicides.
Apr 18, 2018 — Sofia Coppola lets us behind closed doors in ways that are beyond the imagining of the novel’s boy narrators.
The Daily
Mar 18, 2018 — A24 is setting up an adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son, reports Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. “Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has written the script and celebrated conceptual artist Rashid Johnson will direct the film, which will take...
The Daily
Feb 9, 2018 — Ioncinema has completed its countdown of the fifty most anticipated foreign films of 2019—that’s twenty-nineteen—and Nicholas Bell has written up a paragraph for each of the top ten: 1. Untitled Jonathan Glazer Project2. Abel Ferrara’s Siberia3. Kleber Mendonca Filho and...
Short Takes
Jan 8, 2018 — We remember the late portrait photographer Robin Holland with two images she took on the set of Paris, Texas.