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 ...

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” ...

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There is a famous skit in Spike Jonze’s 2003 skate video, Yeah Right!, featuring Owen Wilson in the middle of his run as Hollywood’s golden boy. Sitting in an open hatchback wearing a black jacket and ...

Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He frequently writes for the Criterion Collection, and hosts and ...

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 ...

In the Berber-language film Adiós Carmen (2013), a boy in 1970s Morocco spends his days watching Hindi musicals at the village cinema. One of the shows is Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay. The audience, riveted ...

A lot happens in Hong Sangsoo’s latest, By the Stream. After a few features in which his plots seem to have been reduced to the barest minimum—like the beautiful sister-films In Water (2023) and In ...

Peter Tscherkassky will be receiving the Underground Spirit Award for “outstanding work in independent filmmaking” at the Paliç European Film Festival this month, and it’s easy to see why. Ever since ...

On the final Saturday of the Cannes Film Festival—a day of repeat screenings of Competition films that culminates with the awards ceremony—I woke up in my apartment to no lights, no Wi-Fi, no AC. I ...