Yeah right!” On the level of form, this interlude has a practical effect: it injects levity into an otherwise intense ...

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Checks and balances: creaky and cringe as it is, James L Brooks's Ella McCay is distinguished by the familiar warmth and polished witticisms of one of our most experienced entertainers ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho has ingeniously programmed a mixture of horror, science fiction, paranoid thriller, crime procedural, and personal documentary that inform his latest, The Secret Agent ...

The results are in for our 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2025 ...

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The results are now in for our 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2025 in the ...

Our Best Undistributed Films list, voted on by Film Comment contributors worldwide, recognizes the new films that premiered—at festivals, or elsewhere—in 2025 but did not have U.S. distribution at ...

Roman Polanski’s life experience is predicated upon violence and absurdity. As an accused and convicted sex offender on the lam for nearly half a century, Polanski is toxic, although it has taken a ...

Basic American that I am, I quickly abandoned the meticulously crafted schedule I had created for this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in favor of screenings held in air-conditioned venues. The ...

Running on empty: Ari Aster‘s Eddington, Christian Petzold‘s Mirrors No. 3, and Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague fail to be more than mere reflections of their grander ambitions and inspirations ...

“I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert,” remarks Sandy (Laura Derm) to Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) at a crucial juncture in the harrowing new David Lynch picture, Blue Velvet. We never are ...