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March-April 2020. Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s radical genre mashup Bacurau, Nick Pinkerton on the maximalism of Hollywood royal King …

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 …

Stand!: our Sundance coverage kicks off with Maddie Whittle, Ruun Nuur, and Vadim Rizov joining to discuss SLY LIVES!(aka the Burden of Black Genius), Pee-wee as Himself, All …

2025年1月13日 · This article appeared in the January 10, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the …

In the hands of a different director, Showing Up might have played like yet another Sundance-style indie: a film packed with quirky characters (including an injured pigeon) and snappy, self …

2024年12月13日 · This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here.. On December 12, 2024, as part our annual winter list extravaganza, Film Comment …

2024年12月20日 · This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here.. All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, 2024) I was knocked out by Luca …

The title of Charlotte Wells’s film invokes a balm used to soothe skin scorched by an unforgiving sun. Again and again in Aftersun, the characters partake in the restorative rituals of this salve; …

2025年1月13日 · This article appeared in the January 10, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the …