Best of Criterion’s New Releases, January 2018

February! Paste Magazine! Criterion round-up for January! You know the drill! (The two musts, if you ask me, for January are the Pabst films. I’m only slightly biased, being as I wrote about both of them, but they’re essential regardless.)    

Review: Have a Nice Day, 2018, dir. Liu Jian

File Have a Nice Day under the “movies that I wish I liked more” tab in the file cabinet containing every review I’ve ever written. (Note: I don’t actually have a file cabinet. It’s a metaphor. Work with me here.) Honestly, if this film’s animation scheme actually embraced movement and didn’t feel so fucking stiff, I’d … Continue reading →