Category: Criterion Tuesday

First Man Into Space

First Man Into Space delivered an entertaining film that was rather impressive in its commentary, which is the correct expectation to carry into a film of this size and reputation from MGM, and the final ten minutes do enough heavy lifting...

Rififi

Rififi resembles not only the best traditional heist we have every received, but a framework, and standout all in one that has taken me far too long to watch and even longer to truly...

The Irishman

The Irishman is Martin Scorsese at his most meditative and his most intelligent, his final entry in the gangster genre that he so intricately redefined, and the final act following De Niro’s Frank alone justifies every slow stretch that p...

Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused is a definitive statement of Linklater’s gift and the starting point for one of the great mainstream directing careers of the last three decades, and it remains an identity-finding masterpiece that gets better every s...

Le Trou

Le Trou is overwhelmingly good from its opening scene to its devastating final act, a film that Jean-Pierre Melville called the greatest French film of all time, and it remains near the top of that list more than 60 years...

Days of Heaven

Days of Heaven is a romance film that mirrors Malick's own love affair with the American heartland, photography, and the art of film, and that devotion is both the film's most beautiful characteristic and the reason it keeps a certain kind...

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