Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism ...
Eternalisms: a tribute to the indefatigable husband and wife pair, whose art was a neverending process of revelation ...
Land of the Pharaohs (1955, Howard Hawks). When I first saw it, as a kid, Land of the Pharaohs became my favorite film. I’d always been addicted to historical epics, but this one was different: it ...
The results are in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment's contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2024 ...
What time is it?: critics and programmers Miriam Bale and Adam Piron join to discuss PTA’s latest's successes and failures, how it fits into his larger body of work, and more ...
Same as it ever was but more so’ is a fair description of the Sundance Film Festival in 2003: more movies (thanks to the new World Cinema Documentary section), more subscribers, more stars and ...
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The results are in for our 2021 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from critics, as ...
1. Crash Paul Haggis, 2005 2. Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle, 2008 3. Chicago Rob Marshall, 2002 4. Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis, 1994 5. A Beautiful ...
An unclassifiable, unflinching eco-mystery, Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor shows off the pioneering Pole’s stylistic verve—and nerves of steel Spoor, the English title of the 2017 film directed by ...
Yes. I think, if I may say so, it’s like a sentence by Picasso I was once struck by: “I like to paint until the painting refuses me.” I would say that cinema won’t refuse me for a couple more films, a ...
Rather than a traditional narrative, Come and See functions as a conflagration—an assault of poetic-horrific impressions that could have been ripped from Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry or Jerzy Kosiński’s ...