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: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis—an invigorating analysis of climate ...

Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early ...

1. L’Argent Robert Bresson, 19832. Gertrud Carl Theodor Dreyer, 19643. F for Fake Orson Welles, 1975 ...

Early on a frigid Valentine’s morning in some desolate village within the Ontario hinterland, talk radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is assailed by an unidentified woman while driving to work.

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 ...

Tom Hanks’s confident demeanor is as daunting as Mt. Rushmore and just as effective in discouraging speculation about who those men really are. In his office at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, ...

All change at Locarno? Well, yes and no. While festival president Marco Solari announced plans to expand the festival, the appointment of Locarno insider Carlo Chatrian as artistic director, following ...

World War II films tend to reflect the immensity of the conflict in the scale of the production. On a fraction of the usual budget, Canopy adopts a more modest, arty approach to the war, following a ...

This article appeared in the June 4, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The Mastermind ...

This past fall, Film Comment conducted an international poll of critics, programmers, academics, filmmakers, and others to identify the top films and filmmakers of the decade. In addition, we asked ...