The latest features from NYFF regulars Hong Sangsoo and Pedro Almodóvar unfold layers of meaning in their seemingly ...

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 ...

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

This week and next, Film Comment is reporting from the picturesque shores of the Lido, where the Venice Film Festival takes place each year. This year’s edition features new films by many major ...

This week and next, Film Comment is reporting from the picturesque shores of the Lido, where the Venice Film Festival takes place each year. This year’s edition features new films by many major ...

“The instinct for life expresses itself in strange ways,” the Palestinian director Mohanad Yaqubi says, quoting the late Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab on how people survive amid the unfathomable ...

Nigerian-born, U.K.–based brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri announced themselves as filmmakers to watch with their 2020 debut feature Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), a subtly observed, woozily beautiful ...

Cannes 2026 is in full swing, and the Film Comment crew is on the ground, ready to cut through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, and much more. This year ...

Invigorated as I was by the conceptual prowess of Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, my one major reservation is that I simply didn’t have that much fun—at least not as much as I ...

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 ...

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