Usually for someone’s birthday you have to get them something, but The Criterion Channel is celebrating its sixth birthday by giving movie fans one heck of a present — the ability to stream a number ...

You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The actress Pascale Ogier is one of the meteoric ...

Criterion's streaming lineup for December includes the best films from the Pope of Trash — plus pre-Code movies from Columbia Pictures and a few MTV Classics. Rue the Christmas blues no more — the ...

The slasher movie hadn’t been around long before a shaggy-haired, 30-year-old film-school dropout named John Carpenter came along and perfected it, in 1978, with “Halloween.” An October perennial that ...

Last week, The Criterion Channel announced that the streaming service will receive a new Anime section in August, alongside the arrival of several classic films. Specifically, it will feature Mamoru ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: All We Imagine as Light’s debut on The Criterion Channel puts it right on track to be a future arthouse classic. Weirdly excluded from Oscar shortlists (for boring, ...

A collection on the streaming platform highlights the wide-ranging work of the director, from the screwball ‘Bringing Up Baby’ to the noir ‘The Big Sleep’ to the western ‘Red River.’ ...

All right, Mr. DeMille. We’re ready for our close-up. Founded in 1984 to issue definitive, expanded editions of “important classic and contemporary films from around the world,” Criterion has gone ...

In the 1930s, the French realist filmmakers found a way to speak to and fight against the rising authoritarianism in their country and the world. There’s a wonderful new Criterion Channel series on ...

Wong Kar-wai’s first TV series, streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a lush melodrama about an economic miracle. By Mike Hale Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love,” with its silences and stillnesses ...

Nosferatu the VampyreWerner Herzog, 1979Of the Nosferatu/Dracula adaptations this is now my favorite. The landscapes in the first chunk of the movie remind me more than a little bit of Aguirre ...