Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel

Watch this video and more on The Criterion Channel

Start your free trial

Already subscribed? Sign in

Roots That Reach Toward the Sky

Newly Added • 15m

Directed by Jess X. Snow • 2024 • United States
Starring Shirley Chen, Pearl Wu, Che’Li

After her mother’s traditional Chinese medicine shop is vandalized, a young botanist draws on the resilience of her local community and the healing remedies of her ancestors to contend with her deepest anxieties.

Up Next in Newly Added

  • The Ice Storm
    1:53:28
    The Ice Storm

    The Ice Storm

    Directed by Ang Lee • 1997 • United States
    Starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver

    Suburban Connecticut, 1973. While Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” speech drones from the TV, the Hood and Carver families try to navigate a Thanksgiving break simmering with unspoken resentment, sexu...

  • Boogie Nights
    2:35:35
    Boogie Nights

    Boogie Nights

    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. ...

  • Fassbinder’s Women
    1:28:52
    Fassbinder’s Women

    Fassbinder’s Women

    Directed by Rosa von Praunheim • 2000 • Germany

    Few filmmakers have left behind such a monumental and complicated legacy as Rainer Werner Fassbinder—a renegade as idolized for his brilliance and personal magnetism as he was demonized for his emotional volatility and almost sadistic working metho...

×