To watch Anocha Suwichakornpong’s By the Time It Gets Dark is to journey through a world where the boundaries of time and space do not exist. Suwichakornpong’s style—established by her short Graceland ...

One of the saddest things I ever heard was from an acting teacher who reminded us that an acting career is often a tragic pursuit, moving in a circular progression. He described it using Kim Stanley ...

Originally titled Je suis une ville endormie (I Am a Sleeping City) in a previous incarnation, Nights with Theodore tells an entrancing tale of precarious romance between two young people in Paris’s ...

Critic Pavel Sladký and programmer Irena Kovarova kick off our coverage from the Czech festival’s 60th edition ...

John Early’s remarkable directorial debut filters the ravages of an eating disorder through the funny-yet-sincere lens of ...

In March 2020, a few days into New York’s COVID-19 lockdown, the visual artist Meriem Bennani posted a one and a half–minute clip to her Instagram captioned “2 Lizards Ep 1,” following it with seven ...

The results are in for our 2021 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from critics, as ...

In one of the most enigmatic final shots in modern cinema, we’re alone in a room with Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The actor looms almost surreally large, occupying about a third of the screen, while the rest ...

Roland Barthes famously said, “Garbo’s face is Idea, [Audrey] Hepburn’s is Event.” The facial showdown between Idea and Event is played out again in Les Hautes Solitudes, Philippe Garrel’s ...

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 ...