The Criterion Collection
Essays
Oct 19, 1998 — Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints...
The writer, director, and composer talks about the enduring inspiration of The Age of Innocence, praises the tonal precision of David Cronenberg’s Crash, and shares his love for Pasolini’s potent mix of poetry and intelligence.
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Jul 26, 2022 — The festival selects urgent documentaries, starry portraits, and family dramas.
The Daily
Nov 19, 2019 — Contributors to RogerEbert.com and the A.V. Club as well as Time’s Stephanie Zacharek and more pick their favorite films of the decade.
Oct 29, 2019 — The actor-turned-producer made Paramount a major player during the heyday of the New Hollywood.
Sep 13, 2018 — The imitation of nature becomes a devotional act in Terrence Malick’s cinema, which reaches sublime heights in this exploration of childhood, memory, and grief.
Essays
Oct 26, 2016 — The tropes of light comedy give way to a Kafkaesque nightmare in this incendiary critique of moral rot in Franco-era Spain.
Nov 10, 2014 — Monte Hellman’s existential westerns take Beckett to the desert.
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Jan 5, 2026 — One of France’s biggest stars took the world by storm before her reputation took a turn.
Oct 21, 2025 — Set in a postcard-perfect American town, David Cronenberg’s provocative take on the old-fashioned crime thriller examines the pleasure we derive from cinematic violence and the construction of patriarchal impunity.