Toukhy’s Woman Unknown and Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love have emerged from what has otherwise been the festival’s weakest ...

Critics Miriam Bale and Öykü Sofuoğlu discuss new films from Werner Herzog, Martin McDonagh, Paul Schrader, and more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2026, 232 pp. How does one generate empathy for an ecosystem? This was the challenge that many science-fiction filmmakers took upon themselves in the first ...

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2026, 400 pp. Whitney Strub’s new biography of Robert Kramer raises the perennial question of the “political artist.” Titled after Kramer’s aspiration for the ...

“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 ...

New York: Sticking Place Books, 2026, 250 pp. We tend to blame Ronald Reagan for combining politics with showbiz so thoroughly that we can no longer recognize “reality TV” as an oxymoron, or expect ...

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The endless toil of conflicted hearts becomes the stuff of moral catharsis in the hands of Belgian master craftsmen the Dardenne Brothers Read this story as part of the archived issue. In three ...