Criterion Confessions

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2012. Long before there were "comic book movies," and indeed, some time bef...

  Irma Vep is very much a movie of its moment. Released in 1996, Olivier Assayas’ freeform metafictional experiment captures the intersecti...

1960’s La vérité is a cracking courtroom drama. Directed by Henri Georges-Clouzot ( Diabolique [ review ]) and starring Brigitte Bardot...

You do stupid things when you’re young. Destructive things. When I was 12 or 13, a couple of friends and I used to go to the high-rise ...

If you still have doubts as to how good an actress Kristen Stewart is, just watch her emote in reaction to smart phone text conversation...

Sacha Guitry can sure make murderous fantasies feel playful and fun. Plowing similar territory as Preston Sturges’ Unfaithfully Your...

My capsule review , from a festival appearance in February, 2015, of Clouds of Sils Maria : Good, but muddled. A tighter grip on the sp...

The man who would be codenamed Carlos, and nicknamed "The Jackal," was a Venezuelan-born son of Communists who, at the age of 21, ...