The Criterion Collection
Essays
Sep 21, 2021 — Johnnie To pays homage to Akira Kurosawa in this martial arts drama about the virtue of struggle and self-improvement.
On the Channel
Aug 30, 2021 — Next month, we’re headed to the Big Apple with a century-spanning survey of New York on-screen.
Essays
Jun 29, 2021 — In Dee Rees’s ambitious and lyrical debut, the inner life of a queer Black teenager and poet is summoned in all its nuances and contradictions.
Features
Jan 25, 2021 — First Person The release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story—the first film of the Star Wars anthology series, and a major occasion for many Star Wars fans—on December 16, 2016, was preceded by a much larger event on November...
Dec 17, 2020 — The year 1999 was several months old when I entered Los Guajolotes, a restaurant that, like so many others in Mexico City, has now disappeared. I was walking to my table when a person who appeared to live on the streets...
The Daily
Nov 6, 2020 — A new restoration of Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk, the return of Sophia Loren, supercops in the 1970s, and Costa-Gavras’s Z are on our minds this week.
The Daily
Oct 30, 2020 — How fitting it is that the season for scary viewing arrives as we teeter on the cusp of a historical moment.
On the Channel
Sep 30, 2020 — Genre fans rejoice! October kicks off with a ’70s Horror series and the head-spinningly eclectic films of the New Korean Cinema.
The Daily
Sep 29, 2020 — The renowned documentarian’s new feature is essentially a four-and-a-half-hour plea for a return to competence in government.
Aug 4, 2020 — The NYFF lines up three films by Steve McQueen, Venice adds two titles, and Telluride reveals the lineup for the edition that would have been.