With July less than two weeks away, it’s about time we draft our picks for Criterion Month once again. This is the annual podcast where the three of us take turns picking what movies from the Criterion Collection we’d like to review on this blog over the course of next month. Most years there aren’t a ton of stolen picks, and sorry to disappoint you, that is once again the case this year. That said, we all had a lot of fun talking about revered movies we haven’t seen yet but are excited to talk about in 30(ish) days of somewhat rushed reviews that are published just in time before the stroke of midnight.
| Author | Day | July | Spine | Movie | Director | Country | Year |
| Colin | Friday | 1 | 1033 | The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | USA | 1928 |
| Sean | Saturday | 2 | 1104 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | USA | 1941 |
| John | Sunday | 3 | 221 | Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1952 |
| Colin | Monday | 4 | 1015 | Journey to the Beginning of Time | Karel Zeman | Czechoslovakia | 1955 |
| John | Tuesday | 5 | 315 | Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | France | 1960 |
| Colin | Wednesday | 6 | 945 | A Raisin in the Sun | Daniel Petrie | USA | 1961 |
| Sean | Thursday | 7 | 679 | The Tale of Zatoichi | Kenji Misumi | Japan | 1962 |
| John | Friday | 8 | 667 | Seconds | John Frankenheimer | USA | 1966 |
| Colin | Saturday | 9 | 717 | The Young Girls of Rochefort | Jacques Demy | France | 1967 |
| Sean | Sunday | 10 | 937 | Dragon Inn | King Hu | Taiwan | 1967 |
| Sean | Monday | 11 | 841 | Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance | Kenji Misumi | Japan | 1972 |
| Colin | Tuesday | 12 | 797 | The New Land | Jan Troell | Sweden | 1972 |
| John | Wednesday | 13 | 1131 | Pink Flamingos | John Waters | USA | 1972 |
| Colin | Thursday | 14 | 820 | Fantastic Planet | René Laloux | France, Czechoslovakia | 1973 |
| Sean | Friday | 15 | 288 | F for Fake | Orson Welles | USA | 1975 |
| Sean | Saturday | 16 | 978 | One Sings, the Other Doesn’t | Agnès Varda | France | 1977 |
| Sean | Sunday | 17 | 773 | Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | Australia | 1980 |
| Colin | Monday | 18 | 995 | Polyester | John Waters | USA | 1981 |
| Colin | Tuesday | 19 | 535 | Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | UK, Japan | 1983 |
| John | Wednesday | 20 | 107 | Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | UK | 1986 |
| John | Thursday | 21 | 898 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | USA | 1992 |
| Sean | Friday | 22 | 453 | Chungking Express | Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong | 1994 |
| John | Saturday | 23 | 857 | Before Sunrise | Richard Linklater | USA | 1995 |
| Sean | Sunday | 24 | 1074 | Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | France | 1996 |
| Sean | Monday | 25 | 485 | The Last Days of Disco | Whit Stillman | USA | 1998 |
| Colin | Tuesday | 26 | 1097 | Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood | USA | 2000 |
| John | Wednesday | 27 | 858 | Before Sunset | Richard Linklater | USA | 2004 |
| John | Thursday | 28 | 859 | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater | USA | 2013 |
| Colin | Friday | 29 | 1005 | Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland | 2018 |
| John | Saturday | 30 | 1132 | The Worst Person in the World | Joachim Trier | Norway | 2021 |