Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London and the co-editor of Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving ...

Film Comment hosted the author Malcolm Harris for a special event celebrating the launch of his latest book, What’s Left: ...

Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy ...

Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early ...

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 1974 2. Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 1970 3. Faces John Cassavetes, 1968 4. Eyes Without a Face Georges Franju, 1960 5. Eyes Wide Shut Stanley ...

Like many of Aki Kaurismäki’s films, Fallen Leaves is a slender tale of underclass melancholy. There’s little dialogue but plentiful music, often emanating from a jukebox. All of the furnishings seem ...

“There are many ways in which Zama, [Lucrecia] Martel’s first feature in nine years, represents a departure for the Argentine writer-director,” I wrote in “When All Is Lost,” my September/October 2017 ...

This article appeared in the November 2, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Vampyr (Carl ...

It’s been 25 years since the theatrical release of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, which had a week-long run at Film Forum in 1991. Dash’s groundbreaking film follows the Peazant family in the ...

The results are now in for our 2024 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 2024 in the ...

Okay, okay, so some bits are slightly cheesy. But Cronenberg delivers a combination of visceral fascination and philosophical intrigue found in few other films this year, reaffirming his place as ...

Two artists entering full bloom — Maren Ade (with our first non-American #1 since 2012’s Holy Motors) and Barry Jenkins—topped our annual survey, next to a redoubtable team-up of Paul Verhoeven and ...