From Kurosawa to Hitchcock, The Criterion Collection has a well-earned reputation for treating great films with great care.  Since it began releasing DVDs in 1998, Criterion has developed serious bona fides among cinephiles: The company was one of the first distributors to honor the original aspect ratios; its supplementary materials, unlike so many tossed off [...]

The Criterion Collection has been spoiling cinephiles for over 25 years with the bells and whistles that makes home viewing/collecting wonderful: exhaustive extras, nerdy liner notes, and an impeccable curatorial selection. But what happens when even they get it wrong? In honor of the release of its latest hiccup, the well-received but snoozy A Christmas [...]