Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local ...

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Which side are you on? The law-and-order-era audiences for Martin Ritt’s 1970 period drama may have wanted to be told which side to take, but this story of violent underground resistance in a mostly ...

“We are now in the reality of the Entity.” This is the warning intoned several times in the latest installment of the Mission: Impossible series, The Final Reckoning. A sinister A.I. program, the ...

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A companion piece to the straight camp of 2005’s Bubble, Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded portrait of the greatest act of gay vanity in the modern era offers a wealth of riches: Rob Lowe’s face, ...

Receiving the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, Juliette Binoche held up a sign bearing the name of Kiarostami’s frequent ...

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This article appeared in the May 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Nouvelle Vague ...

Oliver Laxe’s fourth feature, Sirât, is the French-born Galician director’s first film to premiere in Competition at Cannes, where it’s been a highlight of the 2025 festival’s first week. A singular ...