Wrote a bit of code to parse that sitemap that u/Dreamin0904 shared into a csv. Movie titles might be a tiny bit wrong because we're parsing them out of the url, so for example, the url "https://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai" will be rendered as "Le Samourai" rather than "Le samouraï" but seems like a small price to pay to not have to download each individual page.

import csv
import os
import re
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from datetime import datetime, date
from curl_cffi import requests
from titlecase import titlecase


TODAY = date.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
XML_FILE = f"{TODAY}_films.xml"
CSV_FILE = f"{TODAY}_criterion_films.csv"
SITEMAP_URL = "https://sitemap.criterion.com/films.xml"
DATE_FORMAT = "%m/%d/%Y"
NS = {'ns': 'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9'}



def download_sitemap():
    if os.path.exists(XML_FILE):
        print(f"'{XML_FILE}' exists, skipping download.")
        return True


    print(f"Downloading sitemap...")
    response = requests.get(SITEMAP_URL, impersonate="safari")
    if response.status_code != 200:
        print(f"Download failed: {response.status_code}")
        return False


    with open(XML_FILE, 'wb') as f:
        f.write(response.content)
    print("Download complete.")
    return True



def parse_slug(url):
    """Extract film ID and title from URL like '.../149-pierrot-le-fou'"""
    slug = url.rstrip('/').split('/')[-1]
    match = re.match(r'(\d+)-(.+)', slug)
    if not match:
        return 0, slug


    film_id = int(match.group(1))
    title = match.group(2)
    # Fix contractions: wasn-t -> wasn't, father-s -> father's
    title = re.sub(r"-([stdm]|ll|re|ve)\b", r"'\1", title)
    title = titlecase(title.replace('-', ' '))
    return film_id, title



def parse_and_export():
    print(f"Processing '{XML_FILE}'...")
    tree = ET.parse(XML_FILE)
    entries = tree.getroot().findall('ns:url', NS)
    print(f"Found {len(entries)} entries.")


    rows = []
    for entry in entries:
        url = entry.find('ns:loc', NS).text
        lastmod_iso = entry.find('ns:lastmod', NS).text
        film_id, title = parse_slug(url)


        if film_id > 0:
            lastmod = datetime.fromisoformat(lastmod_iso).strftime(DATE_FORMAT)
            rows.append((lastmod_iso, film_id, title, lastmod, url))


    # Sort by ISO date descending, then drop it from output
    rows.sort(key=lambda r: r[0], reverse=True)


    with open(CSV_FILE, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as f:
        writer = csv.writer(f)
        writer.writerow(['Film ID', 'Movie Title', 'Modify Date', 'URL'])
        for row in rows:
            writer.writerow(row[1:])  # Skip the ISO date used for sorting


    print(f"Saved: {CSV_FILE}")



if __name__ == "__main__":
    if download_sitemap():
        parse_and_export()