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Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local ...

This article appeared in the May 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Nouvelle Vague ...

Cannes 2025 is in full swing—and you can count on our on-the-Croisette crew of Film Comment contributors to cut through the noise with thoughtful dispatches, interviews, and Podcasts.This year’s ...

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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 ...

Every year, Film at Lincoln Center honors a luminary of the film industry with the Chaplin Award.This year’s honoree is a beloved screen icon: the Dude, the Starman, the legend—Jeff Bridges. As critic ...

This article appeared in the April 5, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The Annihilation ...

This article appeared in the January 5, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Robert Bresson ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2023 coverage. Read all the lists here.. One of the benefits of the streaming-industrial complex and its rapacious and insatiable lust for content is ...

This article appeared in the November 2, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Vampyr (Carl ...