Gilda (1946)
Gilda, is a film that succeeds far more on presence and craft than on narrative ambition, a classic 40s noir vibe that earns its Criterion through its ability to frame Rita Hayworth perhaps better than any other film ever has...
Gilda, is a film that succeeds far more on presence and craft than on narrative ambition, a classic 40s noir vibe that earns its Criterion through its ability to frame Rita Hayworth perhaps better than any other film ever has...
The Odyssey delivers on every front it the epic of modern times landing as the best film in an increasingly stacked film year, a masterful achievement that takes the foundational story of western storytelling and renders it with a scale...
Little House on the Prairie is one of the most pleasant and wholesome surprises of the year, a sweet family western novel adaptation that is a bit surface level so well shot, acted, and delivered that it proves exactly why it was...
Testament is one of the most realistic and quietly devastating post–World War II nuclear war stories, not because of what it shows, but because of how stubbornly it refuses to look away from the ordinary human cost of c...
The Bear Season 5 is an outstanding final season and one of my personal favorite series of all time, finishing as one of the best shows of the year and a worthy, emotionally overwhelming conclusion to one of the defining television dramas...
Classe Tous Risques succeeds as a quietly tense character study more than a traditional thriller, though that very shift in tone and pacing ends up being both the film's defining choice and its biggest...
Widow’s Bay has now announced a season 2, and the finale does a fantastic job sticking the landing while leaving room for more, the show closes its first run as one of the most exciting new horror entries in years, and perhaps one of the t...
Viridiana brings this contradiction to the forefront defining its viewing experience: a film banned at home and celebrated abroad, built by a director who spent his career split between protest and exile, and its exactly this tension that...
Thelma and Louise is one of our absolute favorite films of all time because of its character transformations, monumental genre swap. Western influences, and iconic ending, that remains the absolute best female led films ever made and...
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai succeeds because of its originality, meditative storytelling, and the way it transforms a simple hitman premise into a strangely beautiful blend of western, Japanese samurai, and crime film that delivers a...