Criterion Confessions

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

I’ll admit, until the Criterion Channel paired Wes Craven’s 1972 debut The Last House on the Left with Ingmar Bergman masterpiece The Vi...

In the lore of One-Eyed Jacks , it’s said that Marlon Brando’s character Rio was supposed to be Billy the Kid, and was even identified a...

I am sure back in the day all video store employees had games they played to pass the time when they got bored. When another loop throu...

A round-up of non-Criterion reviews I wrote this past month: IN THEATRES... * 50/50 , as unserious as cancer. Or as serious as cancer. Kind ...

Roman Polanski's 1966 film Cul-de-sac is a darkly comic genre send-up, playfully toying with B-movie conventions while subverting ...

A man is shot behind a closed door. He stumbles from the apartment and tumbles down the stairs, passing the only witness, a blind man. Polic...

A small sailboat becomes the center of male competition in Roman Polanski's tense 1962 debut, Knife in the Water . When a middle-aged Po...