The first stop anyone should make as they journey through “Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits,” The Criterion Collection’s towering dedication to late martial arts master and international icon Bruce Lee, is “Water and Vessel,” critic and historian Jeff Chang’s load-bearing essay. For novices, the background Chang has gathered and woven into a tapestry of Lee is essential for contextualizing the five pictures assembled in the set: “The Big Boss,” “Fist of Fury,” “The Way of the Dragon,” “Enter the Dragon,” and “Game of Death.” Think of Chang’s piece as Bruce Lee 101, insight and knowledge procured by an author to whom the name means everything.

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The Criterion Collection has already established quite a relationship with Netflix over the past year. With the debut of “Roma” in the Criterion catalog last year, it was announced that the two would strengthen their relationship by adding “Marriage Story,” “Atlantics,” “The Irishman,” and “American Factory” to the coveted collection. And in July, the first film in that list hits Criterion.

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If you ask 100 film fans who the best kung-fu martial arts actor of all time is, they’d all likely say Bruce Lee. Over the years, Lee established himself as the most popular and most dynamic kung-fu actor, thanks to a variety of films that have gone on to become classics.

Thankfully, Criterion is ready to honor Lee the best way possible, with a new “Greatest Hits” release coming in July.

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