Gone fishing: the documentarian talks about his first feature in over a decade, an emotionally devastating and intricately ...

By Jordan Cronk in the May-June 2020 Issue E leven years after their modest, award-winning feature debut The Anchorage, C.W. Winter and Anders Edström return with an opus several times more ambitious.

In 1961, Jacques Rivette wrote a short Cahiers du Cinéma review of Gillo Pontecorvo’s Kapò (60), a grim Holocaust drama whose many horrors include the sight of a young concentration camp prisoner ...

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Even if you hadn't seen the film, you knew what a Stepford Wife was. I remember a woman refusing to go on the pill because she feared doing another stint as a “mindless, busty Stepford Wife.” I ...

It’s tempting to describe David Fincher’s stunning, mordantly funny, formally dazzling new movie Fight Club as the first film of the next century and leave it at that. It certainly suggests a possible ...

This list is actively updated. Showing art-house, indie, and/or repertory films, ordered by state and then city. Where applicable, parent film organizations are also listed, and * denotes nonprofit. Did ...

A serene middle-aged man sits down at what is apparently a rolltop desk. Around him, shallow darkness, and the arms and torso of an assistant standing by his side. The man pulls up the rolltop (the ...

Ranked according to the time of their last feature film release ...

Shot length studies—the methodical statistical breakdown of entire films by the duration between cuts—are nothing new. But what was once painstakingly gleaned through the cranks of a Steenbeck is now ...

The results are in for our 2025 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 2025 ...

What’s that smell? The plain isn’t the only thing that’s charred in screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga’s directorial debut; subtlety goes up in flames too. The Burning Plain, which Arriaga also scripted, ...