The Criterion Collection
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May 20, 2019 — Professor David Bordwell unpacks the sophisticated design of Kenji Mizoguchi’s final masterpiece.
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May 20, 2019 — For many, the semi-autobiographical film is one of Almodóvar’s best in years.
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May 20, 2019 — While a few find the family drama heavy-handed, most critics are enthusiastically cheering on Loach’s latest competition entry.
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May 19, 2019 — The Austrian director, a Cannes regular, is in competition for the first time with a chilly tale of a happiness-inducing flower.
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May 19, 2019 — Critics are finding the young Russian director’s second feature to be bleak yet irresistibly masterful.
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May 17, 2019 — Ly’s fiery fiction feature debut alludes not only to Hugo but also to Fuqua, Kassovitz, and Spike Lee.
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May 16, 2019 — Initial response to Silverstein’s first fiction feature is ranging from warm to very warm indeed.
Sneak Peeks
May 16, 2019 — One of the key ways that Michael Haneke ropes viewers into Funny Games, his relentless, provocative psychological thriller about a brutal home invasion, is by regularly breaching the fourth wall. In the 1997 film, two high-spirited young men in tennis...
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May 16, 2019 — Within a brisk seventy-seven minutes, Dupieux and Jean Dujardin escort us into the mind of a potential psychopath.
May 16, 2019 — All week long, writers have been reminding us that there was more to Doris Day than sweet sunshine.