Filmed 2025-12-02
Kim Morgan
The critic
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The critic and cowriter of Nightmare Alley explores the complexity of Gene Tierney’s femme fatale in Leave Her to Heaven, compares Adam Sandler and Paul Thomas Anderson’s work on Punch-Drunk Love to the collaboration of James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, and talks about the enduring influence of Kiss Me Deadly.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Merrily We Go to Hell | Dorothy Arzner | 1932 |
| 2 |  Something Wild | Jack Garfein | 1961 |
| 3 |  Leave Her to Heaven | John M. Stahl | 1945 |
| 4 |  Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | François Girard | 1993 |
| 5 |  Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2002 |
| 6 |  Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | 1955 |
| 7 |  The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
United States accounts for six of their seven single films.
Closest taste
Jaccard overlap against every other visit, counted on what came off the shelf rather than on films, so a shared box set counts once rather than as the films inside it.
403 visits compared · 31 filmed-together pairs excluded
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
Their decades
Their seven single films with a release year on record, against where every guest's single-film picks land. Box sets are left out of both sides, so the two bars measure the same thing.