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The Best Shorts of 2024

By Inney Prakash

December 20, 2024

The long and short of it: the strongest, strangest, and boldest shorter films of 2024

The Best Restorations of 2024

By Gina Telaroli

December 20, 2024

In with the old: the best restorations, preservations, reprints, and remasters of 2024

Singular Scenes of the Year

By Amy Taubin

December 20, 2024

Love less: two of the best scenes of 2024—from Payal Kapadia‘s All We Imagine as Light and Luca Guadagnino’s Queer–depict the push and pull of desire in real time

The Film Comment Podcast: The Best Films of 2024

By Film Comment

December 13, 2024

Drumroll please: critics Molly Haskell and Michael Koresky join to reveal and discuss the results of our annual year-end critics’ poll

The Film Comment Podcast: Holiday New Releases

By Film Comment

December 3, 2024

Vengeance is mine: critics Beatrice Loayza and Robert Daniels join to discuss Blitz, Conclave, Gladiator II, and more

Control Issues

By Julia Gunnison

December 2, 2024

Closed city: Neo Sora‘s Happyend and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky‘s bluish present visions of urban quiet

Watering the Grassroots: Film Fest Knox

By Mark Asch

December 2, 2024

Democratic vistas: a new Knoxville, Tennessee–based festival champions regional American cinema

Interview: Robinson Devor on Suburban Fury

By Lucia Ahrensdorf

December 2, 2024

Assassin’s creed: the director of Zoo and Pow Wow discusses his latest, a portrait of President Gerald Ford’s would-be killer

Touch Visit: 2024 Sing Sing Film Festival

By Pooja Rangan

November 25, 2024

Access points: the first-ever documentary showcase held within a U.S. prison included a slate of competing films judged by an incarcerated jury

Sea of Love

By Aaron M. Kinzer

November 25, 2024

Stand by me: Daughters is a heartbreaking, years-in-the-making documentary exploring the complex relationship between incarcerated fathers and their daughters