Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 2017 • United States
Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville

Amid the the glamour of 1950s London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing ro...

Directed by Nora Ephron • 1993 •.United States
Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman

The charisma of stars Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and pitch-perfect writing and direction by Nora Ephron come together for one of the all-time great screen romances. Sam Baldwin (Hanks) is a widowed father who, ...

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 1997 • United States
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds

It’s 1977—back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business, and business was booming—and idealistic porn producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. ...

Directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes • 1995 • United States
Starring Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker

The Hughes brothers’ ambitious follow-up to MENACE II SOCIETY is a searing look at the struggles of Black Vietnam War veterans as seen through the eyes of Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate...

Directed by Brian De Palma • 1993 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller

Ten years after SCARFACE, director Brian De Palma and star Al Pacino reunited for another bravura crime drama exploding with stylish set pieces and sizzling performances. Pacino brings his tradem...

Directed by Mary Harron • 2000 • United States, Canada
Starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto

With an iconically unhinged performance from Christian Bale and an audacious blend of grisly violence and subversive black comedy, director Mary Harron turned Bret Easton Ellis’s notorious be...

Directed by George Cukor • 1954 • United States
Starring Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson

Judy Garland had no better showcase for her legendary singing and acting talent than as the title “star” of this classic Hollywood-plays-Hollywood musical spectacular. She dazzles as Esther Blodgett, ...

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón • 2006 • United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine

Alfonso Cuarón’s stunning, meticulously realized science-fiction epic envisages a future world that has fallen into anarchy in the wake of an infertility epidemic that has ...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 2007 • United States
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke

Renowned director Sidney Lumet brought five decades of cinematic mastery to bear in his final film, a riveting thriller that achieves the weight of Greek tragedy. A typically virtuosic Phil...

Directed by Jerry Lewis • 1960 • United States
Starring Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton

The slapstick genius of Jerry Lewis is at its most gleefully inventive in the comedian auteur’s gag-packed, almost free-form first outing as director (as well as writer and producer). He brings his touch...

Directed by Luca Guadagnino • 2022 • Italy, United States
Starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg

Imbued with both stirring romanticism and visceral horror, director Luca Guadagnino’s emotionally stunning saga of love and cannibalism traces the bond that forms between Maren...

Directed by John Huston • 1987 • United Kingdom, Ireland
Starring Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll

The final film directed by John Huston—completed by the ailing director just months before his death and released posthumously—is a triumphant farewell from an artist in total command ...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1982 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard

Welcome to the disturbing world of Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), the psychotic aspiring comedian who believes that all he needs is one appearance on the late-night talk show hosted by Jerry...

Directed by Oliver Stone • 1994 • United States
Starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr.

One of the most explosively controversial films of the 1990s, Oliver Stone’s savagely satirical look at the relationship between violence and the American media—adapted from a story Quenti...

Directed by Sergio Leone • 1984 • United States, Italy
Starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

Sergio Leone’s years-in-the-making final masterwork does for the gangster film what his visionary spaghettis did for the western, brilliantly reimagining the genre as a vehicle for lim...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1941 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks in this snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale. She’s a burlesque queen with a colorful vocabulary who needs to lay low for a while as the police close in on ...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1974 • United States
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter

Martin Scorsese and Ellen Burstyn draw on the classic women’s melodrama, the 1970s road movie, and the burgeoning feminist movement to create a tender portrait of a New Mexico housewife w...

Directed by Todd Haynes • 1998 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette, Christian Bale

A CITIZEN KANE for the glittering, hedonistic glam-rock explosion, Todd Haynes’s deliriously flamboyant third feature follows journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale) as he launc...

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1959 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift

Gay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten ...

Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1956 • United States
Starring Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson

Vincente Minnelli’s masterful direction gives stirring expression to the ache of outsiderhood in this taboo-shattering adaptation of Robert Anderson’s play, one of the first major films to deal e...

Directed by Steven Soderbergh • 1999 • United States
Starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren

Steven Soderbergh’s stylish, fascinatingly fractured revenge thriller stars Terence Stamp as a British ex-con who, following his release from prison, heads to Los Angeles to investigate hi...

Directed by Leo McCarey • 1939 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya

Golden-age Hollywood’s humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema’s most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Char...

Criterion Collection Edition #810

When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper—Humphrey Bogart, in a revelatory, vulnerable performance—becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who can supply an alibi for him is a seductive neighbor (Gloria ...