The Criterion Collection Complete

FOSSE, Bob (United States) Lenny [1974] Spine #1312 4K Director Bob Fosse’s nervy, freewheeling showbiz drama tells the real-life story of taboo-shattering comedian Lenny Bruce, the counterculture prophet whose unfiltered style opened up new frontiers in self-expression. Dustin Hoffman brings a live-wire intensity to his portrayal of the motormouthed Bruce as he goes from small-time strip-club emcee to free-speech lightning rod, while Valerie Perrine lends the film its soul with her deeply affecting performance as his wife, Honey, an innocent lost on the dark side of bohemia. A complex portrayal of one iconoclast by another, Fosse’s film makes deft use of stark monochrome photography and kinetic editing to vividly capture Bruce’s smoky, seedy backstage world. 111 minutes Monaural Black and White 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Bob Fosse  was 47 when he directed Lenny . Other Fosse films in the Collection: #724: All That Jazz (1979) The Film Film Rating (0-60): 60 The...

TRIER, Joachim (Norway) Sentimental Value [2025] Spine #1311 4K Joachim Trier, one of contemporary cinema’s great humanists, excavates layers of history and memory—both national and personal—for this rich, ineffably moving story of one family’s attempts to come to terms with generations of trauma and healing. After the death of their mother, two sisters must contend with the return home to Norway of their estranged father, celebrated filmmaker Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård). In the case of Nora (Renate Reinsve), an actor, he hopes to reconnect by casting her in his new film—a project that both inflicts fresh wounds and reopens old ones. With a virtuoso ensemble cast that also includes Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (in a breakout performance) and Elle Fanning, Trier’s film delicately balances each moment of humor and hurt, conducting a stunning emotional exploration of how the past echoes in the present and art can transform pain into catharsis. 133 minutes 5.1 Surround Color In Norwegian, ...

CHEANG, Shu Lea (United Kingdom) Fresh Kill [1994] Spine #1310 4K A disturbingly prescient ecofeminist parable and a brain-wave-scrambling cyberpunk fantasia, the debut feature from new-media pioneer Shu Lea Cheang merges a bold vision of resistance with an exuberant early-internet aesthetic. In a dystopian-chic New York where sushi joints and toxic-waste sites exist side by side, a lesbian couple (Sarita Choudhury and Erin McMurtry) turn to the hacker underground to solve their daughter’s disappearance, in the process exposing a conspiracy involving corporate greenwashing and tainted fish. Swinging between outré satire and agitprop,  Fresh Kill  sounds the alarm about a capitalist system that pollutes everything from our waterways to our bodies to our minds. 79 minutes 2.0 Surround Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Shu Lea Cheang  was 40 when she directed Fresh Kill . The Film Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras The Booklet Commentary Video tribute Docum...

SACHS, Ira (United States) The Delta [1996] Spine #1309 4K The complexities of race, class, and sexuality collide within a Memphis community in the strikingly raw debut feature from director Ira Sachs. With neorealist immediacy,  The Delta  tells what at first appears to be a simple love story: two young men—Lincoln (Shayne Gray), a closeted white teenager, and Minh (Thang Chan), a Black Vietnamese immigrant—meet at a cruising spot and embark on a nighttime journey by boat down the Mississippi River. But soon, imbalances of power and privilege emerge between them, as the film develops into a devastating vision of lost, wounded souls reaching out in the dark for human connection. 84 minutes Monaural Color 1:66:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Ira Sachs  was 31 when he directed The Delta . The Film Film Rating (0-60): 60 The Extras The Booklet Commentary Video tribute Documentary 1 Documentary 2 Documentary 3 Controversial altered ending Theatrical trailer Extras R...

KASDAN, Lawrence (United States) Body Heat [1981] Spine #1308 4K With his debut feature, acclaimed writer-director Lawrence Kasdan brilliantly updated the conventions of 1940s film noir for the 1980s, resulting in one of the steamiest and most influential erotic thrillers ever made. On the sultry South Florida coast, lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) is drawn into a torrid affair with unhappily married housewife Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner, in a star-making performance)—and it’s not long before they’ve hatched a scheme to murder her wealthy husband. Featuring ingenious plot twists, memorable hard-boiled dialogue, and an atmosphere so evocative you can practically feel the humidity,  Body Heat  is a languorously seductive tale of greed and desire, one that paved a new path for American crime cinema. 113 minutes 5.1 DTS-HD Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Lawrence Kasdan  was 32 when he directed Body Heat . Other Kasdan films in the Collection: #720: Th...