Toukhy’s Woman Unknown and Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love have emerged from what has otherwise been the festival’s weakest ...
Bilge Ebiri and Guy Lodge join to discuss Danny Boyle’s Ink, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, and Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar ...
Critics Miriam Bale and Öykü Sofuoğlu discuss new films from Werner Herzog, Martin McDonagh, Paul Schrader, and more ...
Cannes 2026 has arrived, 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’s ...
Jonathan Romney and Tim Grierson debate festival premieres Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, Woman Unknown, and more ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I started originally as a mes­senger at Fox. I came out of Stanford as an engi­neer, worked four days and quit. The only way I could get into the business was a messenger. I worked up—became a ...
The results are now in for our 2025 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 2025 in the ...