Criterion Confessions

EAGLE SHOOTING HEROES This review originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2008. Made in 1993, the Chinese comedy Eagle Shooting Her...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2007. Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain was barely a blip in theatres during...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2007. Chas is a brutal enforcer who is really good at his job. Played with a blu...

This review was originally written as part of an overview of the Barbara Stanwyck Signature Collection  in 2007. Released in 1935, this...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2009. For some reason, a lot of the women in my life, both ones who were simply ...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2014.  Twenty-two years before George Cukor would remake A Star is Born (and e...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in May 2009. It's being reprinted unedited with its original jokes intact...just bec...

The Criterion Channel, in addition to hosting a plethora of feature films, also has a varied collection of short films--live action, animate...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2013. William Wyler's 1942 drama Mrs. Miniver is a rousing piece of wartime...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com as part of the Roberto Rossellini 2-Disc Collector's Edition in 2008 . Dov'...

This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2009. Hollywood was all over Akira Kurosawa from the get-go. Not in the "W...