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

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

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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1. Eighties New Wave: the late Seventies and early Eighties saw a huge influx of talent into Hong Kong from filmmakers who, for the most part, had studied overseas, and then returned to Hong Kong ...

There are over 200 theaters in the United States that are independently owned and operated and generally screen nothing but what would be labeled “art-house” films. These theaters have existed in one ...