Inney Prakash and Michael Blair join to debate You Can See Everything, Digger, and Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother ...

For the latest installment of her quarterly column that delves into the career of a screen performer, past or present, our ...

Ayanna Dozier and Melissa Anderson join to discuss several films from this year’s lineup that push the boundaries of ...

Beware of a Holy Whore (70) is a hot-tempered entry in the canon of films about filmmaking. The cast and crew of a film congregate at a Spanish hotel, awaiting the arrival of their director, Jeff (Lou ...

Cannes 2026 wrapped this past weekend, 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’ ...

This article appeared in the August 28, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. From August ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is perhaps no cinematic history as precarious as that of the American avant-garde, where the likes of Barry Gerson—a truly self-taught polymath whose art encompasses 16mm films, photo collages, ...

One of the strangest, most improbable effects of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is that after over two and half hours of unrelenting garishness, the film’s obnoxious editing, historical inaccuracy, obvious ...

Adolf Hitler in his bunker. A midwife who loves champagne. A divorce prosecutor who doesn’t trust banks. A man who hasn’t yet met love. Cinematographer Gergely Palos, who previously collaborated with ...