Announcing Criterion’s June 2025 New Releases

Coming in June: The Wiz, a dazzling soul spin on a landmark tale, directed by Sidney Lumet; Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser, an intimate record of a jazz visionary from Charlotte Zwerin; Midnight, a topsy-turvy screwball comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen; William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, a pulse-pounding, hallucinatory thriller; and François Girard’s Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, an unconventional portrait of an iconoclastic pianist. Plus: Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a visually stunning biopic of a controversial Japanese author, and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, a dystopian epic about a daydreaming bureaucrat—now on 4K UHD.

Criterion's May 2025 Releases

Coming in May: Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, a quiet revelation of American independent filmmaking; Withnail and I and How to Get Ahead in Advertising, two indelible comedies from maverick British writer-director Bruce Robinson; Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us, a meditative masterpiece set in rural Iran; and The Three Musketeers/The Four Musketeers, a two-part swashbuckling spectacular directed by Richard Lester. Plus: Jacques Demy’s TheUmbrellas of Cherbourg, one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time, and In the Heat of the Night, a Hollywood classic from the civil rights era directed by Norman Jewison—now on 4K UHD.

Announcing Criterion's January 2025 New Releases

Coming in January: The Mother and the Whore, the long-unavailable 1970s magnum opus from Jean Eustache; Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, a lacerating self-portrait by legendary comedian Richard Pryor; The Grifters, Stephen Frears's pulpy, dark-hearted neonoir; and Winchester '73, Anthony Mann's landmark, genre-redefining western. Plus: Yojimbo/Sanjuro, two of the most iconic and influential samurai films, by Akira Kurosawa, now on 4K UHD.

The Criterion Collection - December 2024 - New Releases

Coming in December: No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen's riveting West Texas borderlands noir, and Eastern Condors, Sammo Hung's bazooka blast of Hong Kong action spectacle. Plus, now on 4K UHD: Paris, Texas, a visually exquisite study of a drifter in the American Southwest, directed by Wim Wenders, and Federico Fellini’s 8½, one of the greatest films about film ever made.

Criterion's September 2024 Releases!

Coming in September: Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, a trio of films from the New Queer Cinema renegade; All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh's metaphysical exploration of queer love and loneliness; and Happiness, Todd Solondz's disturbingly funny portrait of middle-class suburbia. Plus: The Long Good Friday, John Mackenzie's landmark of British crime cinema, and Repo Man, Alex Cox's quintessential 1980s cult comedy—now on 4K UHD.

Criterion’s July 2024 Releases

Coming in July: Black God, White Devil, Glauber Rocha's blistering existential western from Brazil; Perfect Days, a serene ode to everyday life in Tokyo directed by Wim Wenders; Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah's blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West; Farewell My Concubine, a breathtakingly intimate saga in twentieth-century China, directed by Chen Kaige; and Risky Business, Paul Brickman's sly satire about a suburban Chicago prepster. Plus: Le samouraï, Jean-Pierre Melville's masterpiece of cool about a contract killer with samurai instincts, now on 4K UHD.

Criterion's June 2024 Releases Announced

Coming in June: Bound, Lana and Lilly Wachowski's hyperstylish, sapphic heist thriller; Querelle, a delirious depiction of gay desire from Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Victims of Sin, a vibrant Mexican musical-melodrama-noir from Emilio Fernández; and The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins's monumental reimagining of American history through the eyes of an enslaved woman. Plus: Blue Velvet, David Lynch's unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam's feverish psychedelic odyssey—now on 4K UHD. 

Criterion's May 2024 Releases Announced

Coming this May: Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène, three powerful 1970s works by the trailblazing Senegalese auteur; Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet's masterful examination of the line between truth and fiction; and Girlfight, Karyn Kusama's singular tale of a young woman’s path to self-realization. Plus: a Blu-ray upgrade of A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu, a silent classic from one of cinema’s greatest directors alongside his color remake, and Peeping Tom, Michael Powell’s still-shocking masterpiece of British cinema, now on 4K UHD.

March Criterion Releases

Coming in March: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, a powerful documentary from Laura Poitras about art and activism; Saint Omer, Alice Diop's morally and emotionally complex courtroom drama; The Runner, Amir Naderi's lyrical portrayal of childhood in postrevolutionary Iran, and To Die For, a deliciously subversive media satire from Gus Van Sant. Plus: All That Money Can Buy (a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster), William Dieterle's stylish take on the Faust legend, now on Blu-ray.

The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy 4K Ultra HD Review

Reviewed by Sean Ferguson

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, is now available for the first time on 4K UHD. From New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, the first epic trilogy that includes the theatrical and extended versions of the three films in 4K UHD with HDR. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy includes The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. This set also includes Digital copies of both versions of each film.