Checks and balances: creaky and cringe as it is, James L Brooks's Ella McCay is distinguished by the familiar warmth and ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho has ingeniously programmed a mixture of horror, science fiction, paranoid thriller, crime procedural, ...

What passes for plot gradually gets even more minimal when the driver’s horse first refuses to pull the wagon, then refuses to eat. Eventually father and daughter also become immobilized, confirming ...

For instance, what, in the United States in 2010, made a then-unknown 19-year-old Jennifer Lawrence so riveting in Winter’s Bone, the film that vaulted her—now the highest paid actress in ...

Of course, Grahame was by this time largely a figure of celluloid memory: she was the flirtatious goofus of Zinnemann’s Oklahoma!, but, more typically, she was the Ur-noir siren (of Lang’s The Big ...

For modernist poet H.D. and her contemporaries at the journal Close Up, the young medium of cinema lit up the room with soul-stirring force By Sheila O'Malley in the May-June 2020 Issue The Madonna of ...

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 ...

If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child. Where Ray’s ...

The restoration of Come and See (1985), Elem Klimov’s unblinking depiction of Nazi armies wreaking carnage on Soviet Belorussia in 1943, enables us to view this disturbing, mesmerizing epic with fresh ...

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu was born to a working-class family in Châteauroux, smack dab in the middle of France, in 1948. At age 16 he came to Paris, had an early stage success in the Café de la ...

It’s quite possible that you heard a snatch of “Falling” in your head when you read the words “Twin Peaks”: the spare, four-note, Duane Eddy–influenced bass hook followed by a response from a Rhodes ...

A gleefully sensual and inventive comedy, Tampopo was an art-house smash in 1987. Director Juzo Itami drew on American noirs and gangster films and Westerns and probably comic books, too, to come up ...