Roman Polanski‘s J'accuse, which dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, premiered to great acclaim in France—but soon led to ...

Water colors: the Argentine filmmaker pens and paints a tribute to Hong Sangsoo’s latest “river film," By the Stream ...

This article appeared in the July 11, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Bebo’s Girl (Luigi ...

This article appeared in the May 23, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. I Only Rest in the ...

Cannes 2025 is in wrapping up this weekend—and our intrepid on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors has been high-tailing it from screening to screening, cutting through the noise with a ...

“I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert,” remarks Sandy (Laura Derm) to Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) at a crucial juncture in the harrowing new David Lynch picture, Blue Velvet. We never are ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. At a recent panel at Anthology Film Archives about new scans and restorations of the films of Sergei Parajanov, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Window on the world: incarcerated journalist Phillip Vance Smith, II delves into how people in prisons watch movies—the streaming devices available, the viewing options, the costs of renting a film, ...

Poland is the birthplace of a number of modern cinema masters—Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Roman Polanski, to list but a few. None, ...

The results are in for our 2023 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 2023 ...