The Criterion Collection
Essays
Aug 20, 2001 — Preston Sturges’s generous-hearted satire achieves a synthesis that is both terribly funny and deeply moving.
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Sep 6, 2022 — Here’s an overview of how some of the contenders are faring with critics in Venice.
Dec 9, 2025 — In her Cannes-award-winning narrative feature debut, Mira Nair sees the lives of Indian street children with an unconditionally generous gaze, taking in their world in all its contradictions and complexity.
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Dec 1, 2025 — One of the most vital playwrights of our era was also an award-winning screenwriter.
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Nov 24, 2025 — This month brings new collections from Melissa Anderson and A. S. Hamrah and a whole shelf of lives lived with the movies.
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Jan 23, 2025 — In the run-up to the forty-first edition, critics have been writing up lists of their most-anticipated films.
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Dec 12, 2024 — The festival will kick off the new year with political quandaries and plenty of great music.
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Jul 12, 2023 — An actress disrupts the life of the woman she’s playing in the latest feature from Todd Haynes.
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May 31, 2022 — The jury gave awards to nearly half the competition, but some critical favorites missed out.
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Oct 20, 2021 — The range this month stretches from the silent era to this weekend’s launch of The Liberated Film Club.