Criterion Confessions

  This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2012. There's something about the way the title card declaring that Bernie is ...

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 ...

“ It’s not time that they’re lost in, but perception .” And perception is key to this review of Before Midnight , the closing chapter o...

Confession: I didn’t see Before Sunset during its theatrical run, it was a couple of years before I finally gave in and checked it out...

My first thought in rewatching Before Sunrise was to wonder if they had a plan all along. Back in 1995, were writers Richard Linklater a...

A chance flirtation that leads to a one-night stand ends up as a weekend-long affair that should affect both men involved for a lifetime....

There was an “everything is connected” subgenre in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s that was perhaps kicked off by Richard Linklater’s Slacker ,...

I intend to review the full Before Trilogy when the release comes out this February, but in the meantime, here is my original review of Bef...

This review was originally written for the theatrical release of Boyhood and published on DVDTalk.com in 2014. When we left the s...