The Criterion Collection
May 23, 2018 — About halfway through Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation (2016), Dr. Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) finds himself in a patch of woods in the middle of the night, crying. It’s a surprisingly vulnerable moment for a protagonist who is usually all business. We’re...
May 21, 2018 — Beyond the Hills (2012) tells the story of a real-life Romanian tragedy that attracted international media attention in 2005: the death of a young woman submitted to a shockingly medieval exorcism at a small monastery in Moldavia. The monastery was...
May 21, 2018 — W hether she’s pushing herself to new heights on stage and screen or nurturing her passions as a painter and poet, Juliette Binoche is as creatively voracious now as she’s ever been. Her combination of strength and disarming vulnerability as...
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May 20, 2018 — New restorations of rarely seen gems from the 1920s and ’30s are screening in New York.
On the Channel
May 20, 2018 — A lifelong movie collector remembers the thrill of discovering the granddaddy of all monsters on Super 8.
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May 19, 2018 — All agree that the drama set in the slums of Beirut is gripping, but is it too manipulative?
May 18, 2018 — Improvising to Jim Jarmusch’s film in real time, Neil Young created a rich parallel environment that sounds like a force of nature.
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May 18, 2018 — The young Chinese director transports critics to a state of “melancholic bliss.”
May 17, 2018 — Gaspar Noé’s nightmare party movie takes the top prize.
May 15, 2018 — Critics come down hard on this portrait of a serial killer, but the film does have its champions.