The Best Movies & Shows Released in 2006 on Criterionchannel
Find the best movies and show to watch from the year 2006. These handpicked recommendations are highly-rated by viewers and critics.
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Pedro Almodovar’s films tend to swing wildly between comedy/farce and melodrama/tragedy. Volver somehow hits the sweet spot right in the middle of all four genres, with an added dose of magical realism. It’s a total joy to watch, which is really saying something since the story touches on murder, adultery, incest, malignant tumors, ghosts, and […]
After the 1975 release of the Maysles brothers’ Grey Gardens, Big and Little Edie Beale’s story captivated viewers and spawned a musical and a dramatized biopic about the reclusive, impoverished socialite mother-daughter duo. The Beales of Grey Gardens is a compilation of the remaining unreleased archival footage, released after the death of both subjects and […]
With the narrative switching back and forth between Long’s imprisonment and his family’s dangerous escape, Journey From the Fall can feel a tad confusing. The structure also dilutes some of the terror of not knowing what happened to their loved ones. But what’s shown is already potent in and of itself, starting with the folktales […]
We rarely think about the lives of the people around us, but more so the lives of the people who’ve come from another country completely different from our own. Man Push Cart depicts the life of Ahmad, a widower and former Pakistani rockstar, in the city of New York, just a few years after 9/11, […]