Cannes 2026: Our favorite critics rate selections from this year’s edition By clicking Sign up, you agree to our site’s Terms ...

Jonathan Romney and Beatrice Loayza kick off our Cannes 2026 coverage with reactions to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, ...

The great actor—and star of the new film Silent Friend—delves into his minimalist approach and remarkable career ...

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Toggle the menu Festival Dispatch Fairytale in the Supermarket. This year’s festival presents a cross-section of an industry ...

The results are in for our 2023 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2023 in the United ...

Heart of gold: a not-quite silent Czech film explores the fall (and fall) of a country girl gone bad I’ve seen it argued that an obsession with film preservation is unhealthy, that our energy is ...

Although he made one movie about mad love—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—David Fincher never seemed a director deeply concerned with intimate relationships between women and men. His primary ...

W­ith over one hundred films to his credit, Raúl Ruiz was perhaps the most prolific filmmaker of his generation. However, his filmmaking exploits were so far-flung and diverse that it is virtually ...

Who runs the world? The director of The Handmaiden and Oldboy talks about getting in touch with his feminine side and his Naruse obsession Do you see The Handmaiden as the culmination of your ...