It’s that time of year again! Well, sort of. This year we’re pushing our annual Criterion Month back a month due to summer travel plans, which will perhaps give us time to buy some of the blu rays on sale at Barnes & Noble’s July Criterion Sale? Who knows, but one thing we do know is that we’ve stuck to the same format of picking our movies to review each year. We each take turns selecting our films over the course of a podcast and then struggle to describe what these movies are about. But that’s ok! We haven’t seen them yet, but luckily a sense of discovery will prevail during the ensuing month as we find out why these films are deserving of being in the Collection.
| Author | Spine | Title | Director | Country | Year | Running Time | Day | August |
| John | 704 | Riot in Cell Block 11 | Don Siegel | United States | 1954 | 80 | Thursday | 1 |
| Colin | 1100 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | United States | 1957 | 81 | Friday | 2 |
| Colin | 1016 | Invention for Destruction | Karel Zeman | Czechoslovakia | 1958 | 81 | Saturday | 3 |
| Sean | 1191 | The Trial | Orson Welles | France, Italy, Yugoslavia | 1962 | 118 | Sunday | 4 |
| Colin | 707 | Il sorpasso | Dino Risi | Italy | 1962 | 105 | Monday | 5 |
| Colin | 1214 | I Am Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov | Cuba, Soviet Union | 1964 | 141 | Tuesday | 6 |
| John | 749 | The Soft Skin | François Truffaut | France | 1964 | 117 | Wednesday | 7 |
| Colin | 564 | Pale Flower | Masahiro Shinoda | Japan | 1964 | 96 | Thursday | 8 |
| Sean | 1000 | Ebirah, Horror of the Deep | Jun Fukuda | Japan | 1966 | 86 | Friday | 9 |
| Colin | 987 | Klute | Alan J. Pakula | United States | 1971 | 114 | Saturday | 10 |
| John | 470 | Wise Blood | John Huston | United States | 1979 | 105 | Sunday | 11 |
| Colin | 204 | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany | 1979 | 120 | Monday | 12 |
| John | 624 | Quadrophenia | Franc Roddam | United Kingdom | 1979 | 120 | Tuesday | 13 |
| John | 1079 | Streetwise | Martin Bell | United States | 1984 | 91 | Wednesday | 14 |
| Sean | 1185 | After Hours | Martin Scorsese | United States | 1985 | 97 | Thursday | 15 |
| Colin | 902 | Desert Hearts | Donna Deitch | United States | 1985 | 91 | Friday | 16 |
| Sean | 490 | Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | Germany | 1987 | 127 | Saturday | 17 |
| Sean | As Tears Go By | Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong | 1988 | 98 | Sunday | 18 | |
| John | 521 | Mystery Train | Jim Jarmusch | United States | 1989 | 110 | Monday | 19 |
| Sean | 1207 | The Heroic Trio | Johnnie To | Hong Kong | 1993 | 88 | Tuesday | 20 |
| Colin | 1077 | Flowers of Shanghai | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan | 1998 | 113 | Wednesday | 21 |
| John | 162 | Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom | 1999 | 93 | Thursday | 22 |
| Sean | 1159 | Infernal Affairs II | Andrew Lau Wai-keung and Alan Mak | Hong Kong | 2003 | 119 | Friday | 23 |
| John | 2004 | Take Out | Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou | United States | 2004 | 88 | Saturday | 24 |
| John | 822 | Clouds of Sils Maria | Olivier Assayas | France, Germany, Switzerland | 2014 | 124 | Sunday | 25 |
| Sean | 1136 | Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan | 2021 | 179 | Monday | 26 |
| Colin | 1212 | Saint Omer | Alice Diop | France | 2022 | 123 | Tuesday | 27 |
| Sean | 1218 | Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | France | 2023 | 151 | Wednesday | 28 |
| John | 1234 | All of Us Strangers | Andrew Haigh | United Kingdom | 2023 | 105 | Friday | 29 |
| Sean | 1226 | Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | Japan, Germany | 2023 | 142 | Thursday | 30 |