Paul Muni is ‘Scarface’ in the original gangster masterpiece on Criterion Channel

This 1932 American gangster classic from Howard Hawks, loosely based on the life and legend and Al Capone, transforms the criminal rise and fall into a perverted twist in the American dream.

Orson Welles is Harry Lime on Carol Reed's classic

Continental noir: ‘The Third Man’ on Criterion Channel

Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles star in Carol Reed’s continental film noir set in the rubble of post-war Vienna. It placed in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made.