The Criterion Collection Complete

DEL TORO, Guillermo (United States) Frankenstein [2025] Spine #1332 Blu-ray Guillermo del Toro’s spellbinding take on one of the most enduring of all modern myths, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, imbues the classic tale with new depths of humanity while pushing it toward dazzling heights of gothic grandeur. Shifting between the perspectives of the brilliant but callous Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) and the creature (Jacob Elordi) he fashions from flesh and then cruelly mistreats, del Toro movingly reframes the legend as a story of fathers and sons struggling to break free from cycles of trauma. A decades-in-the-making triumph of darkly ravishing visual invention and operatic storytelling, Frankenstein is a deeply personal statement from a director who has long been drawn to the realm where men and monsters merge. 150 minutes Dolby Atmos Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Guillermo del Toro  was 61 when he wrote and directed Frankenstein . Based on Frankenstein;...

SKOLIMOWSKI, Jerzy (United Kingdom) The Shout [1978] Spine #1331 Blu-ray A tour de force of psychic dread that begins as an ambient murmur and builds to an existential shriek, legendary Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s provocative adaptation of a short story by Robert Graves is a hallucinatory confrontation with the unknown. In a small English village, an experimental composer (John Hurt) and his wife (Susannah York) see their routine existence upended by the arrival of an enigmatic stranger (a seductively sinister Alan Bates), who claims to possess knowledge of Aboriginal magic and the ability to kill using a deadly scream—a power that makes him an object of both terror and desire. With its puzzle-box structure, unnerving ambiguity, and otherworldly electronic sound design, this Cannes Film Festival award winner quivers with the primal fear of mysterious and uncontrollable forces. 86 minutes 2.0 Surround Color 1:85:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Jerzy Skolimowski  wa...

EDEL, Uli (Germany) Christiane F. [1981] Spine #1330 Blu-ray Plunging into the 1970s Berlin underground, this unforgettable portrait stands as one of the most harrowing films ever made about drug addiction. Based on the true story of Christiane Felscherinow—whose shocking memoir made her the face of a generation of troubled German youth—this bracing dramatization follows the alienated thirteen-year-old Christiane (Natja Brunckhorst) as she goes from popping pills to shooting heroin amid West Berlin’s infamous club scene, the highs of adolescent abandon giving way to an agonizing existence on the city’s desolate margins. An instant cult sensation on account of its authentically grimy location shooting and electrifying soundtrack by David Bowie, Christiane F. remains a haunting vision of a young life in free fall. 131 minutes 5.1 Surround Color in German 1:78:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Uli Edel was 34 when he directed Christiane F . Screenplay by Herman Weigel . Based on...

ONWURAH, Ngozi (United Kingdom) Welcome II the Terrordome [1995] Spine #1329 Blu-ray Ngozi Onwurah’s radically ahead-of-its-time dystopian sci-fi film Welcome II the Terrordome —the first theatrically distributed British feature by a Black woman—furiously evokes a near future in which Black people are segregated within a slum called the Terrordome, where simmering violence and anger threaten to boil over in the wake of a young boy’s murder. Named after an incendiary single by Public Enemy, the film uses its rap soundtrack to both comment on and drive its narrative, part of a sensibility in which American, British, and African cultures collide and the past, present, and future collapse. In this prescient work, Onwurah builds a visionary, Afrofuturist cosmology that connects the history of slavery to modern-day systemic racial brutality. 94 minutes 2.0 Surround Color 1:37:1 Criterion Release 2026 Director/Writer Ngozi Onwurah  was 31 when she wrote and directed Welcome II to the Ter...