The filmmaker discusses the making of his epic docudrama, a viscerally intimate document of the African diaspora ...

Shorts by Kamal Aljafari, Camilo Restrepo, Heather Landsman are debated by participants in this year’s Film at Lincoln Center ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. The films you’ve made since beginning Histoire(s) du cinéma are more emotional than anything you’ve done before. Each feels like an attempt at ...

The results are in for our 2023 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2023 in the United ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the ...

What would it mean for a film to meet the moment, especially a moment as calamitous as ours? To be honest, the very thought rings alarm bells: many recent movies that are said to have accomplished ...

Cannes 2026 is nearing its close, but the Film Comment crew has not slowed down one bit as we continue to cut through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. What was important was embracing what I thought he was really about. He kills someone who threatens his territory, for racial reasons. The horror speaks ...

On screen, the late singer-songwriter’s characters were peroxide angels, rhinestone cowgirls, and doe-eyed working girls with hearts of gold ...

In times like these, there are few living filmmakers I’d rather have on my side than Pedro Almodóvar. The Spanish director, who is being honored on April 28 with the Chaplin Award at a Film at Lincoln ...

Around the late 1980s, the Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros was contemplating making a movie about Marilyn Monroe. It would have been new territory. Her best-known movies had until then centered not ...

On December 11, 2025, as part our annual winter list extravaganza, Film Comment Editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute were joined by esteemed critics Amy Taubin and Bilge Ebiri for a real-time ...