Kleber Mendonça Filho has ingeniously programmed a mixture of horror, science fiction, paranoid thriller, crime procedural, ...

Checks and balances: creaky and cringe as it is, James L Brooks's Ella McCay is distinguished by the familiar warmth 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 ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2025 coverage. Read all the lists here. Greaser’s Palace (Robert Downey Sr., 1972). Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives. There were more new 4K ...

It’s likely the case that there were tens of thousands of short films released into the world this year. (Sundance alone fielded 11,153 short-film submissions.) Naturally, the reader will expect the ...

Two teenage boys pushing a giant subwoofer down a desolate, nocturnal Tokyo street. A heist in an autumnal New England town comically distended by a station wagon whose cargo hold can only be accessed ...

The dozen or so theaters that regularly offer repertory programming in New York afford a vantage on a vast moviegoing landscape that can be traversed nonstop. Here everything old is new again—what ...

(Darren Aronofsky, U.S., 2010)Early in Black Swan, artistic director Thomas Leroy concludes his personal synopsis of Swan Lake with the declaration that only in death does its troubled heroine find ...

(Neil Jordan, U.S./Ireland, 2009)Swooping across sparkling azure waters, the first shots of Neil Jordan’s Ondine envision Ireland amid a sea bubbling with ancient mystical forces. When the camera ...

(Warner Archive, $18.95)As John Ford said to a teenage Spielberg: “Where’s the horizon?” In Philip Kaufman’s 1974 film it rises almost to the top of the frame, an unforgiving expanse governed by harsh ...

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

Streaming PickLarry 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 ...