Jason Sudeikis Raids the Criterion Closet With Taste to Spare
Jason Sudeikis has entered thee Criterion Closet — and his picks make it very clear the man has been paying attention.
The Ted Lasso star and screenwriter runs through a stack of films that shaped his taste, including A Face in the Crowd, a movie he loves so much he even talks about his desire to remake it.
Criterion also highlights Sudeikis’s personal connection to Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, while his sports-movie brain gets plenty of room with favorites such as Love & Basketball and Bull Durham.
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Jason Sudeikis Goes Full Movie Nerd
His Criterion haul stretches from noir and New Hollywood to sports classics and cult favorites. Explore his official Closet Picks, then revisit a couple of the films he singled out.
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And those are only part of the haul. His full Criterion selection also includes Eyes Wide Shut, House Party, Charade, Dazed and Confused, Citizen Kane, After Hours, The Before Trilogy, Pickup on South Street and The Devil’s Backbone.
What makes the segment work is that he isn’t simply naming canonical movies to sound impressive. He keeps circling back to why the films stayed with him — family connections, comedy instincts, sports, performance and the kind of storytelling he clearly wants to keep revisiting.
It is also exactly what makes Criterion’s long-running Closet Picks series so addictive: one person’s shelf grab can turn into a miniature autobiography. Sudeikis’s stack jumps across decades and genres, but the through line is personal taste rather than homework.
Inside Jason Sudeikis’s Criterion Closet Picks
All five images below come from Sudeikis’s official Criterion Closet Picks video.
Criterion recorded Sudeikis’s Closet Picks visit on August 3, 2026, adding him to a lineup that has turned the tiny film closet into one of cinephile culture’s most reliable personality tests.
Watch Jason Sudeikis’s Criterion Closet Picks
The Criterion Collection video finds Sudeikis discussing A Face in the Crowd, Double Indemnity, favorite sports movies and the rest of his handpicked stack.
Source: The Criterion Collection.
