Cannes has traditionally opened with various eminences publicly hymning the glories of cinema, occasionally sounding a note of social responsibility—but without distressing the gowns-and-glamour ...

“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 ...

The results are now in for our 2024 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 2024 in the ...

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If the first wave of posthumous publications collecting and recontextualizing the creative life of Chris Marker tells us anything, it is that 12 years after the death of this self-described “bricoleur ...

My favorite English subtitle comes in Aki Kaurismäki’s Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana. As its two middle-aged slackers awkwardly sit down together, one tells the other, “Move your ass, said Johnny ...

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The results are in for our 2023 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 2023 ...

This article appeared in the May 11, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. There Is a Stone ...

The results are in for our 2022 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from our critics, as well as ...

For instance, what, in the United States in 2010, made a then-unknown 19-year-old Jennifer Lawrence so riveting in Winter’s Bone, the film that vaulted her—now the highest paid actress in ...