Sign up for the Film Comment Letter today to get original film writing delivered to your inbox every week! >>

Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Film Comment

Trivial Top 20®: Best Movies Never Made

By Film Comment
April 26, 2012
An ever-growing list of films you'll never get to see

Trivial Top 20: Worst Winners of Best Picture Oscars®

By Film Comment
March 5, 2012

1. Crash Paul Haggis, 2005

2. Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle, 2008

3. Chicago Rob Marshall, 2002

4. Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis, 1994

5.…

Readers’ Comments: The Best Movies of 2011

By Film Comment
March 1, 2012

The Tree of Life (#1)

The Tree of Life made the top of Film Comment and Sight & Sound’s list, and was the most mentioned film by reviewers around the country. (Three of the top four films on the Film…

Readers’ Poll: The Best Movie of 2011

By Film Comment
February 24, 2012

Film Comment’s Trivial Top 20®: Worst Winners of Best Picture Oscars®

By Film Comment
February 23, 2012
Put away the bean dip and cancel your Oscar party! Our contributors remind you why you shouldn't get too excited for Sunday's fete.

Film Comment’s End of Year Critics’ Poll 2011

By Film Comment
January 5, 2012
The 50 best released and 50 best unreleased films of 2011

Terra Incognita

By Film Comment
January 3, 2012
22 Unknown Pleasures from Around the World (Expanded from 15)

This is one of the first cinematic masterpieces of this century!

By Film Comment
August 6, 2011
Considering "Mysteries," a film driven by what Ruiz calls (in his 2007 study "Poetics of Cinema 2") the complementary strategies of detachment and involvement.

Project Nim: Almost Human

By Film Comment
July 8, 2011
Read Film Comment's take on James Marsh's "Project Nim."

Top 10 Cannes: The Big Round Up

By Film Comment
July 6, 2011
The writers of Film Comment pick their top ten films from Cannes.

Trivial Top 20 (Expanded to 50): The Best Films Set in the Film World

By Film Comment
June 28, 2011

1. Contempt Jean-Luc Godard, 1963

2. The Bad and the Beautiful Vincente Minnelli, 1952

3. Singin’ in the Rain Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952…

The Top 150 Unreleased Foreign Language films of the Nineties

By Film Comment
June 9, 2011
Culled from the brains of over 80 critics, programmers, and exhibitors comes the definitive list of hard-to-find, unreleased gems from around the world

1997 Oscar Predix

By Film Comment
June 9, 2011
The complete list of nominees and favorites, picked by a smattering of fellow critics and contributors

Movies that Mattered

By Film Comment
June 3, 2011
Critics rank the peaks and valleys of 2002's cinematic landscape

Inessential Cinema 2003

By Film Comment
June 3, 2011
Critics rank 2002’s Guilty Pleasures

Marker Direct: an interview with Chris Marker

By Samuel Douhaire and Annick Rivoire
June 2, 2011
A rare interview with one of cinema's most secretive filmmakers by Samuel Douhaire and Annick Rivoire

Midsection: Around the World with Chris Marker

By Film Comment
June 2, 2011
An online-only annotated Chris Marker filmography

Inessential Cinema 2003

By Film Comment
June 1, 2011
Critics rank the year’s Guilty Pleasures

Readers’ Comments: The Best Movies of 2003

By Film Comment
June 1, 2011
The Year in Film

“It seems like every year for the past few people have been talking about what a weak year for films it has been. I feel more like there are great films being made but the current…

Extended Readers’ Poll Results: The Best Movies of 2003

By Film Comment
June 1, 2011
The results are in...