A Brighter Summer Day

“A Brighter Summer Day is just an amazing gangland epic. I don't know how you watch it without becoming convinced that you're watching the greatest movie ever made. It's like The Godfather in that way.”

Ari Aster

Director, Writer

“Really one of my favorite films ever made... so much so that I reached out to Criterion and asked, can you please spare me a poster of A Brighter Summer Day so I can put it in my home?”

Paul Dano

Actor, Director

“It's such a special film that I'm not even sure what to say about this film because I might get emotional.”

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Director

“I sat for four hours on a Sunday in Metrograph here in New York watching this and just left feeling like nothing's the same.”

Tyler Mitchell

Photographer, Artist