Window dressing: maybe, because it’s 2026, and we are all so very tired, we are getting the Wuthering Heights we deserve—a limp one ...

Future picture: festival highlights like The Misconceived, Tycoon, and Chronovisor suggested a new kind of visual storytelling defined by a fluid mix of mediums and methodologies ...

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

It’s a sign of how quickly things change in the movie business, but there was no such thing conceptually as a “reboot.” That idea didn’t exist when I came to look at Batman. That’s new terminology.

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Within moments of meeting a woman on a train, Norman Oppenheimer offers—unsolicited— to introduce her to three prominent people. That’s how Norman operates: he’s a “fixer,” a seemingly well-connected ...

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Streaming Pick Larry Clark's photographs and films dwell on the twilight of adolescence and the dawning of adulthood, often featuring violent collisions between seductive, impersonal cultural forces ...

Portrait galleries: festival highlights like Once Upon a Time in Harlem, I Want Your Sex, and If I Go Will They Miss Me offered a balm for independent art ...

Final call: many of the best films at the fest’s last edition in Park City affirmed its late founder Robert Redford’s belief in “the unexpected perspective” ...

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 ...

The results are now in for our 2025 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 2025 in the ...