Films that feel like Criterion
The Criterion Channel house style — slow, contemplative, world-cinema first, deep auteur catalogs, post-cinema-studies sensibility. Films we'd put on the imaginary Criterion shelf if they're not already there.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Your Name.
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Seven Samurai
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Grave of the Fireflies
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Life Is Beautiful
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City of God
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Cinema Paradiso
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Once Upon a Time in America
bittersweetepicslow burn
A Silent Voice: The Movie
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The Pianist
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Rear Window
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Perfect Blue
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Sunset Boulevard
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Once Upon a Time in the West
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The Intouchables
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Miracle in Cell No. 7
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The Handmaiden
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Alien
body horrordreadslow burn
The Seventh Seal
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Vertigo
paranoidslow burn
Full Metal Jacket
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Incendies
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
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The Hunt
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In the Mood for Love
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Metropolis
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La Haine
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The Invisible Guest
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My Neighbor Totoro
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Memories of Murder
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