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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The title of Charlotte Wells’s film invokes a balm used to soothe skin scorched by an unforgiving sun. Again and again in Aftersun, the characters partake in the restorative rituals of this salve; in ...

Present Tense is a column by Sheila O’Malley that reflects on the intersections of film, literature, art, and culture. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950). In the fifth episode of the celebrated ...

By Manny Farber & Patricia Patterson in the May-June 1976 Issue. Taxi Driver has a lot of negative aspects, but it would be silly to shrug off its baroque visuals and its high-class actor, Robert De ...

Though Leos Carax’s gesamtkunstwerk teeters and sways under the weight of its many contrivances, it somehow, against all odds, manages to take flight.Annette is a singular work: part rock-opera, part ...