Criterion Confessions

Illegal acts of human cruelty. That’s the reason the local sheriff gives when he shuts the carnival sideshow down. He’s specifically acting ...

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...

Back in high school and on through college, I worked a story called Lords of Order , first writing it as a graphic novel and then a scree...

Note: The screengrabs here are from an earlier DVD release and not the Criterion Blu-ray being reviewed. Oh, the sick mind of a writer...

For me, I think what is most compelling about Michelangelo Antonioni’s challenging 1960 drama L’Avventura is how it so effectively upend...

In 2006, Joëlle Jones and I published a comic book called 12 Reasons Why I Love Her . As you can likely guess from the title, it was a r...