Directed by Mike Figgis • 2025 • United States
Starring Francis Ford Coppola, Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver

A decades-in-the-making passion project financed by legendary director Francis Ford Coppola using $120 million of his own money, the audacious science-fiction epic MEGALOPOLIS stands as one of...

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1980 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

One of the most enigmatic and endlessly analyzed horror films ever made, this chilling descent into madness and domestic terror from visionary director Stanley Kubrick stars an...

Directed by Todd Haynes • 2002 • United States
Starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert

Acclaimed director Todd Haynes reteamed with his SAFE star Julianne Moore for this masterpiece modeled on Douglas Sirk’s exquisite melodramas of the 1950s. Moore earned an Oscar nomination for h...

Directed by David Cronenberg • 2014 • Canada, United States, France
Starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson

Director David Cronenberg’s corrosive portrait of Hollywood as a soul-sucking, sunblasted wasteland stars Julianne Moore (in a deliriously unhinged performance for which ...

Directed by Sofia Coppola • 2003 • United States, Japan
Starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi

Sofia Coppola’s wonderfully woozy, mood-drenched is-it-a-love-story? unfolds amidst the lavish yet lonely corridors of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Tokyo, where Charlotte (Scarlett Johans...

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 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 Wong Kar Wai • 2004 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Gong Li, Faye Wong

Wong Kar Wai’s loose sequel to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE combines that film’s languorous air of romantic longing with a dizzying time-hopping structure and avant-sci-fi twist. Tony Leung Chiu Wai reprises his...

Criterion Collection Edition #739

Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extr...

Directed by Joel Coen • 1991 • United States
Starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

The Coen brothers’ darkly surreal journey through 1940s Hollywood casts John Turturro as the titular, Clifford Odets–esque New York playwright who moves to LA to work as a screenwriter for Capitol Pictu...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1981 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes

It’s the year 1997 and the dystopian hellscape of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the U.S. president’s plane is hijacked and crash lands on the island, it’s up to ha...

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich • 1972 • United States
Starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal, Kenneth Mars

Peter Bogdanovich’s bubbly homage to the fast-talking screwball comedies of the 1930s and ’40s coasts by on the breezy charms of Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand as, respectively, a nerdy mu...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1944 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan

“Anybody got a match?” With her very first line in her very first film, Lauren Bacall set the screen ablaze opposite Humphrey Bogart—and an immortal star pairing was born. Loosely adapted from...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1953 • United States
Starring Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn

Two glamorous showgirls have everything a girl could want—except engagement rings! In a quest for true love, Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) and her gold-digger pal Dorothy (Jane Russell) set sail on a...

Directed by Tamara Jenkins • 2007 • United States
Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco

By turns darkly funny and tender, this unusually frank and nuanced portrait of family dysfunction features ...

Criterion Collection Edition #453

Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 1994 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro

The whiplash, double-pronged CHUNGKING EXPRESS is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1938 • United States
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles

What do you get when you combine Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, a missing dinosaur bone, and a leopard named Baby? One of the all-time great American comedies! Grant is the stuffy paleontologi...

Directed by Satoshi Kon • 2003 • Japan
Starring Aya Okamoto, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Toru Emori

Legendary animator Satoshi Kon brings his striking visual imagination and typically complex themes to this wonderfully offbeat holiday tale. On Christmas Eve on the margins of Tokyo, the lives of three lost...

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 Kiyoshi Kurosawa • 2024 • Japan
Starring Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Daiken Okudaira

A gonzo revenge thriller, a darkly comic anticapitalist critique, and a dizzying plunge into the alienated abyss of the internet, CLOUD is among the most audacious genre experiments to date from ma...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1988 • United States
Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster

The ultimate Reagan-era rebuttal, John Carpenter’s subversive science-fiction satire follows a drifter (pro-wrestling legend Roddy Piper) who discovers that America is being controlled by yuppie alien...

Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2013 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen

Wong Kar Wai brings his intoxicating visual lyricism and swooningly romantic sensibility to the martial-arts genre with this sumptuously stylized, ten-years-in-the-making action epic. Tony Leung star...

Directed by Alexander Payne • 2013 • United States
Starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb

When an increasingly disconnected-from-reality father (Bruce Dern) and his estranged adult son (Will Forte) embark on a journey from Montana to Nebraska to claim a (nonexistent) million-dollar sweepst...