Why didn’t you finally watch all three hours and 21 minutes of “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels” sooner? If you’re a cinephile who is still mourning the death of FilmStruck, the online ...

What makes a film a classic? First, it must have a great story. Next, the story must be stylishly filmed by a master director, a filmmaker whose vision more than matches the material. Finally, it must ...

A fight scene from Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, which is included in the Criterion Collection. Hulton Archive/Getty Images “The Criterion Channel will be picking up where the old service left off,” the ...

Invoke the phrase “greatest movie of all time,” and you’d better bring your A-game. Film fans don’t take their “bests” lightly; while fleeting passions may prompt easy praise (Avatar anyone?), smart ...

In honor of what would have been Akira Kurosawa’s 103 rd birthday, Hulu and the Criterion Collection are streaming 24 of his films for one weekend only. Just about all the Japanese director’s classics ...

An all time classic and essential film, Rashomon has spent seven decades as the high watermark of questioning the subjective nature of truth. Often imitated, even spawning the so-called Rashomon ...

Akira Kurosawa's landmark 1950 Japanese film, a penetrating study of the subjectivity of truth and perception, changed cinema forever and inspired the phrase "the Rashomon effect." So yes, it belongs ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...