This Is the End

Jun 12, 2025 — From Hitchcock to Kubrick, Star Wars to Twin Peaks, the selection ranges as wide as the film gauges.

Mar 5, 2025 — The Parisian art-house cinema has programmed a series running at various venues throughout New York City.

Jun 21, 2024 — We open with an Italian neorealist classic, steer through ’70s-era paranoia, and wrap with a blast of gnarly rock ’n’ roll.

May 17, 2024 — We’re reading about Chris Marker and Hiroshi Shimizu and listening to conversations from Cannes.

Oct 3, 2023 — Echoes of the eighty-three-year-old director’s life and career are heard throughout his fourth feature.

Nov 23, 2022 — In Susan Seidelman’s Smithereens, the odyssey of a New Jersey transplant trying to survive in Manhattan is accompanied by the music of one of the Garden State’s most iconic punk bands.

Sep 22, 2022 — This month we’re reading about Jean-Luc Godard, Dirk Bogarde, Michael K. Williams, a few new novels, and just the state of things in general.

Aug 16, 2022 — The big winners at the festival’s seventy-fifth edition were Julia Murat and first-time director Valentina Maurel.

Aug 4, 2022 — A quick briefing on the latest news from Venice, New York, Toronto, San Sebastián, and Philadelphia.

May 26, 2021 — Channel Calendars Next month, the Criterion Channel celebrates Pride Month with a host of extraordinary queer-themed films, including a new installment of our Queersighted series focusing on taboo-breaking artists, a trio of outré underground classics from John Waters, and a restrospective...