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100 Essential Criterion Collection Films

Rotten Tomatoes is proud to partner with one of cinema’s most influential video and streaming companies to create our latest guide: 100 essential Criterion Collection films.

Since 1984, Criterion has been the standard in film restoration and preservation, across physical formats like LaserDisc, DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K, along with the digital space with their in-house streaming service. These films become part of the Criterion Collection, a trademark of the highest quality and treatment that preserves the filmmakers’ vision, ensuring that each movie will be available for generations.

These 100 films represent the full breadth of experience films have to offer here and internationally, and now we’ve also joined up with our friends at Fandango at Home to have each film available for viewing. Every week for the month of May, a different set of films will go on sale, some for the first time ever, so check back often!

8 1/2 (1963) 97%

The 400 Blows (1959) 99%

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990) 67%

Amarcord (1973) 87%

Basquiat (1996) 67%

Beau travail (1999) 87%

Betty Blue (1986) 78%

Bicycle Thieves (1948) 99%

Black Girl (1972)

Black Orpheus (1959) 88%

Blood Simple (1984) 94%

Branded to Kill (1967) 100%

Breaking the Waves (1996) 84%

Breathless (1959) 96%

A Brighter Summer Day (1991) 100%

Buena Vista Social Club (1999) 92%

Cameraperson (2016) 99%

Carnival of Souls (1962) 87%

Chop Shop (2007) 97%

Chungking Express (1994) 88%

City Lights (1931) 95%

Code Unknown (2000) 75%

Come and See (1985) 90%

Cure (1997) 94%

Dead Man (1995) 70%

Drive My Car (2021) 97%

Drylongso (1998) 100%

Elevator to the Gallows (1958) 93%

Eraserhead (1977) 89%

Fantastic Planet (1973) 91%

Farewell My Concubine (1993) 90%

Fat Girl (2001) 74%

Funny Games (1997) 72%

George Washington (2000) 84%

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) 84%

Godzilla (1954) 93%

Hamlet (1996) 95%

Hara-Kiri (1962) 100%

A Hard Day's Night (1964) 98%

Haxan (1922) 92%

The Heroic Trio (1992) 80%

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) 96%

Hoop Dreams (1994) 98%

House (1977) 91%

I Am Cuba (1964) 100%

Ikiru (1952) 98%

Infernal Affairs (2002) 94%

Inland Empire (2006) 72%

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) 95%

Knife in the Water (1962) 97%

Kwaidan (1964) 91%

The Last Emperor (1987) 86%

Le Samouraï (1967) 100%

M (1931) 100%

Metropolitan (1990) 93%

The Mirror (1975) 100%

Mississippi Masala (1991) 92%

Mon Oncle (1958) 94%

Multiple Maniacs (1970) 100%

Night of the Living Dead (1968) 95%

Nothing But a Man (1964) 98%

Once Upon a Time in China (1991) 90%

Onibaba (1964) 90%

Open City (1945) 100%

The Others (2001) 84%

The Player (1992) 97%

Pather Panchali (1955) 98%

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) 92%

The Red Balloon (1956) 96%

La Strada (1954) 97%

A Room With a View (1986) 100%

The Rules of the Game (1939) 97%

The Runner (1984) 100%

Seven Samurai (1954) 100%

The Seventh Seal (1957) 93%

Shadows (1958) 100%

Shame (2011) 79%

Smooth Talk (1985) 94%

Solaris (1972) 93%

Stalker (1979) 100%

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) 73%

The swimming pool (1969) 95%.

Tampopo (1985) 100%

In the Mood for Love (2000) 92%

Thirst (2009) 81%

Time Bandits (1981) 91%

Tokyo Story (1953) 100%

The Trial (1962) 84%

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992) 63%

Until the End of the World (1991) 89%

The Vanishing (1988) 96%

The Virgin Spring (1959) 88%

The Wages of Fear (1953) 100%

Walkabout (1971) 86%.

War and Peace (1966) 100%

The Watermelon Woman (1996) 92%

A Woman Under the Influence (1974) 89%

Yi Yi (2000) 97%

The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) 98%

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Star Trek' s 2009 Reboot Changed Everything

J.j. abrams and company didn't just revive star trek, they steered the franchise—and hollywood—in a new direction..

Star Trek has been an important fixture of sci-fi TV for decades, and alongside its continued existence, movies have helped further flesh out the characters. But in both the movies and TV, the early 2000s weren’t kind to the franchise: 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis was a critical and commercial disaster, and Star Trek: Enterprise had a respectable four-season run, but the shortest of the shows since the original series. Change was in order, and it was eventually decided that would take the form of a reboot that took everyone by surprise.

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Star Trek— that is, the reboot film released May 8, 2009—is one of those movies that showed up at just the right moment. At the time, movies based on old TV shows like Starsky & Hutch and Charlie’s Angels had found commercial successes, which gave this reboot some cultural context. It also helped that it was being helmed by a trio of filmmakers who knew how to make hits: J.J. Abrams was still riding the high off directing Mission: Impossible 3 (speaking of movies based on old TV shows) , along with the almost-ended Lost and the still young Fringe . Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman had written Mission and were further on Paramount’s good side with the first Transformers movie. If there was anyone who could make a new Star Trek flick that’d get anyone’s attention, for better or worse, it’d be these guys.

It really can’t be understated how much Paramount was banking on this new Star Trek being a hit back then. The studio wanted, more than anything, to get audiences to care about Star Trek again, and how best to do that in the 2000s? By hyping up its action scenes and Kirk being quite the ladies man. That didn’t entirely go over well, much like Abrams’ comments that the movie would mainly be for non-Trekkies. Even with that, the movie couldn’t help but look interesting. Those trailers didn’t tell you a dang thing about its actual plot, but they had good vibes, and made you want to see how the Enterprise crew would come to be the adventurers our parents and grandparents had fallen in love with back in their day.

And fall in love, people did: the reboot movie was met with critical acclaim and later four Academy Award nominations, ultimately winning one for Best Makeup and being the only Trek movie to net an Oscar. Despite mixed reactions on the movie splitting off into its own timeline, critics and audiences loved the young cast’s takes on the original characters—especially Zachary Quinto’s Spock and Zoe Saldana’s Uhura—and their chemistry. With a $385.7 million box office, Star Trek succeeded in making people care about the franchise once more. But its high ended up coming down quicker than you’d think, and in the years since, the movies have been marooned in space.

A few years later, 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness left an odd taste in audiences’ mouths. It still made money, but something about it felt off: maybe it was how it did a more convoluted retelling of Wrath of Khan, or maybe it can be owed to its very weird B-plot with 9/11 parallels that feel like they belong in a completely different movie (or another franchise entirely). Star Trek Beyond , conversely, went for a considerably simpler approach and just functioned like a regular episode of the show. That energy, combined with a still- incredible needle drop , was the right move, even if the film wasn’t a smash hit when it dropped in 2016. Paramount’s spent years trying to get a fourth movie off the ground since then, and it’s anyone’s guess as to if it’ll actually happen.

Things have gone much better over in TV land: Star Trek: Discovery and Lower Decks , a pair of well-liked shows, are both ending after their respective fifth seasons—a run that feels like a miracle these days. Star Trek: Picard gave Next Generation fans the legacy sequel they’d been wanting for years, and Star Trek: Prodigy , despite how messily its schedule was handled, brought younger audiences into the fold. It’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that’ll be spearheading future TV plans, which currently include a Starfleet Academy show and the Paramount+ film focused on Michelle Yeoh’s Discovery character Phillipa Georgiou .

Star Trek 2009 's biggest aftershock came outside of its franchise with the big reboot and legacy sequel boom of the 2010s. New takes on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers, RoboCop , and Evil Dead were born from this movie’s success, even if it was just to revitalize its own series. Abrams, Orci, and Kurtzman went on to become even bigger names in Hollywood: the former famously went on to revive Star Wars for the big screen, and is a producing powerhouse. Orci and Kurtzman went on to be involved with the Amazing Spider-Man movies, and create or executive produce shows like Sleepy Hollow and Fringe . When the duo separated, Kurtzman—following his directorial debut The Mummy , which failed to launch Universal’s Dark Universe—effectively became Star Trek’s equivalent to Kevin Feige. Orci, last we heard, was writing a Spider-Man adjacent movie for Sony that’s gone quiet in the years since its announcement.

All-in-all, Star Trek was a game-changer, and for better or worse, you don’t get our current movie landscape without it. With how big the franchise is right now, it’s understandable why Paramount’s wanted so much to get a fourth film off the ground—but is it possible by this point? That hypothetical (and surprising ) Star Trek 4 has been waylaid by shifting creatives for years, to the point you feel like someone should finally make the call to pull the plug. Not only did Beyond give the Kelvin universe its cleanest end after the passings of Anton Yelchin and Leonard Nimoy, fourth movies can sometimes be dicey, especially when their franchise wasn’t really built with it in mind. And it’s anyone’s guess as to if a Starfleet prequel set in the same timeline will rejuvenate it for more films or just be a small detour before we head back to Prime time.

In 2022, Chris Pine said the best way forward for Star Trek movies may require they be less bombastic, more geared toward fans, and cost less to make. It’s an easy sentiment to get behind, and that may really only be possible by junking Trek 4 and doing it with another movie. The Enterprise of the Kelvinverse had a good run, and after 15 years, it’s more than fine to boldly go in a new direction.

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Star Trek: DS9 Almost Gave TNG’s Guinan A Son

Jonathan frakes reveals how roddenberry described riker & how “nervous” he was in tng season 1, q’s son has an awesome new role in the star trek universe.

• Guinan's mysterious past includes having "a lot" of children, with one son who took "several hundred years" to come around.
• Guinan's species, the El-Aurians, were not named onscreen until Star Trek Generations, adding to her enigmatic nature.
• In Star Trek: Picard season 2, Guinan makes a return, showcasing her unique ability to summon a Q and adding more layers to her character.

The mysterious Ten Forward bartender Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) revealed that she had "a lot" of children in Star Trek: The Next Generation . Guinan joined the cast of TNG in season 2 after lifelong Star Trek fan Whoopi Goldberg asked for a role on the show. Goldberg was particularly inspired by Nichelle Nichols' Lt. Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series. Guinan remained an enigma for much of TNG's run, with the show only revealing small tidbits of information about her past.

In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, episode 1, "Evolution," Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) seeks advice from Guinan about her own son, Ensign Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton). When Dr. Crusher asks Guinan whether she has any children, Guinan simply replies: "a lot." Guinan then reveals that she only had difficulty relating to one of her sons because he "wouldn't listen to anybody." Dr. Crusher points out that all kids go through this phase, but Guinan says: "Not in a species of listeners." She goes on to say that it took "several hundred years" for her son to come around, which hints at Guinan's lengthy Star Trek timeline .

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine almost featured a story about one of Guinan's sons, but the plan was changed because Whoopi Goldberg was unavailable.

Whoopi Goldberg's Guinan is Star Trek: TNG's most enigmatic character, but one episode of Deep Space Nine would have changed this by giving her a son!

Star Trek Should Tell The Story Of Guinan's Children

One of guinan's children should join the other tng legacy kids..

Star Trek: Picard season 3 reunited the crew of the USS Enterprise-D and revealed that Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Dr. Beverly Crusher had a son named Jack Crusher (Ed Speleers). Picard season 3 also introduced Sidney (Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut) and Alandra (Mica Burton) La Forge, the daughters of Commodore Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), and focused a great deal on family and legacy. After Star Trek : Picard season 3 became a resounding success, fans clamored for a spin-off featuring the newly rechristened USS Enterprise-G and Star Trek' s legacy characters.

Guinan's species were not officially named El-Aurians onscreen until Star Trek Generations.

Although the long-rumored Star Trek: Legacy remains little more than a hope, this story would provide the perfect opportunity to introduce Guinan's children. Considering the extremely long lifespans of El-Aurians, Guinan's children could pop up anywhere in the galaxy in any number of Star Trek shows. Guinan and Picard have always been close, so it would be fun to see one of Guinan's children interact with Picard's son, Jack. Much about Guinan remains a mystery, and introducing one or more of her children would allow Star Trek to explore more about El-Aurians as a species.

Star Trek: TNG's "Evolution" Sets Up Guinan From "A Species of Listeners"

Star trek: picard season 2 revisits this idea..

After appearing in 28 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and two feature films, Guinan returned in Star Trek: Picard season 2, which revisited the concept of the El Aurians as "a species of listeners." In Picard season 2, Q (John de Lancie) also returned and altered the past, plunging Admiral Picard and his friends into a dark, dystopian future. Picard then had to travel back in time to repair what Q had broken. Not only did Picard meet with Guinan in the present, but he also encountered the younger Guinan in the past, played by Ito Aghayere.

As she helped Admiral Picard, Aghayere's Guinan also revealed a heretofore unseen ability — El-Aurians could summon a Q and the Q had to answer. Guinan does so with John de Lancie's Q, but his powers are on the fritz, rendering him unable to comply quickly. Much about Guinan's connection to Q still remains a mystery, but Star Trek: Picard season 2 added more layers to the El-Aurians. Whether or not Star Trek ever reveals more information about Guinan or her children, she remains one of Star Trek: The Next Generation's most compelling secondary characters.

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