Criterion Confessions

Released in 1999, The Virgin Suicides marked the beginning of the career of writer/director Sofia Coppola, who to my mind is the best Am...

Setting things right, and watching the intended companion in a double-feature with John Huston’s The Misfits [review here , and a part II p...

“ I don’t think they would fight if they were in the river. If they had room to live .” No film more perfectly captures what adolesce...

Motive, means, opportunity. Except all out of order. That’s the way of 1994’s ShallowGrave . It’s backwards. Opportunity provides th...

Just when a guy thinks he’s had enough of coming-of-age dramas about troubled adolescents, along comes a movie like A Brighter Summer Da...

Casting back in my memory, I think I first heard of Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the same time I first heard of Douglas Sirk , back in the...

This is my second write-up of Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. You can read my older review here . What is below isn't actuall...