The animator’s dark, nuanced body of work functioned as a counterweight to Disney's brightly-lit dominance of the 1980s and ...

In March 2020, a few days into New York’s COVID-19 lockdown, the visual artist Meriem Bennani posted a one and a half–minute clip to her Instagram captioned “2 Lizards Ep 1,” following it with seven ...

“He was very little more than a voice.” —Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Little could Joseph Conrad have guessed, when he wrote his novella-length encounter between a man and a myth, that nearly 70 ...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist ends in Venice, at the 1980 Biennale Architettura, where the film’s fictional protagonist, László Tóth (Adrien Brody), is being honored for his lifetime achievements in ...

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 ...

The films of Jacques Rozier, who died last year at the age of 96, understand the pleasures of impulsive behavior—that awfully nice buzz of winging it. Born in Paris in 1926, the French director was a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

This article appeared in the September 6, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. This piece is ...

Time out of mind: the Iranian filmmaker and producer discusses her work with the late French-Swiss maverick, including her documentary See You Friday, Robinson as well as Godard's final two shorts, ...

There’s something strangely sedating about being at the Venice Film Festival. The annual Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica takes place not in Venice proper, but on a tiny island called Lido ...