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Looking for something to watch this weekend? Don’t miss these films leaving the Criterion Channel next month! 📺❤️ Check out what's coming in May!

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JACKASS THE MOVIE (2002) • Now playing! The MTV sensation made the leap to the big screen with this feature-length shock-fest. It's everything that made the original series a cultural phenomenon—just even bigger, wilder, and more insane.

DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975)

SUMMER OF SAM (1999) • Now playing!

Jonathan Glazer's haunting metaphysical mystery BIRTH (2004) 🖤

Mike Leigh at the BBC—Now playing on the Criterion Channel! 📺 Infused with his trademark humor, empathy, &amp; incisive class and social critiques, these early works are blueprints to Leigh’s illustrious later career &amp; brilliant showcases for many of his legendary collaborators!

Bill Hader x Wim Wenders's THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977) 🤠 🖤

Philip Seymour Hoffman in ALMOST FAMOUS (2000) ❤️

Fresh from theaters, Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS (2023), an epic journey of friendship and self-discovery, is now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel! 🏔️ 💚

Buster Keaton's SHERLOCK JR. (1924) • Now playing!

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (2001) 🖤 Now playing in our Parker Posey collection!

Stylish camerawork, innovative special effects, and plenty of startling pre-Code touches make this the definitive screen adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic classic, directed with typical panache by Rouben Mamoulian.

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino face off in HEAT (1995)—a titanic crime epic from pulp poet Michael Mann. With his typically stylish eye for action and dazzling use of LA locations, Mann transforms this rivetingly plotted thriller into an existential opera of macho angst.

Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful in PURPLE NOON (1960), René Clément's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley." What initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, &amp; murder.

VACATION NOIR 🏝️🧵❤️‍🔥 The darkest depths of humanity can lurk anywhere— even underneath the sunny locales and picturesque sights of the best holiday destinations, as seen in these lurid and lusciously overheated films now playing on the Criterion Channel.

THE HOURS (2002) • Now playing! The powerhouse trio of Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore deliver masterful performances in Stephen Daldry’s exquisitely multilayered adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) Hitchcock's classic suspense tale—cowritten by Raymond Chandler, adapted from a novel by Patricia Highsmith—taps into the evil that lies hidden just beneath the surface of each of us.

JOHN WATERS' ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING 🎟️ Now playing! The counter-cultural icon sits down with Michael Koresky (Reverse Shot) for a new episode of our original series to talk about his love of film &amp; introduce favorites by fellow iconoclastic filmmakers.

Mike Leigh at the BBC—Now playing on the Criterion Channel! 📺 Infused with his trademark humor, empathy, & incisive class and social critiques, these early works are blueprints to Leigh’s illustrious later career & brilliant showcases for many of his legendary collaborators!

Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful in PURPLE NOON (1960), René Clément's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley." What initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, & murder.

JOHN WATERS' ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING 🎟️ Now playing! The counter-cultural icon sits down with Michael Koresky (Reverse Shot) for a new episode of our original series to talk about his love of film & introduce favorites by fellow iconoclastic filmmakers.