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Features

Outside the Main Stream

By Michael Koresky
January 2, 2019
The movies we love are ours forever—or are they?

The Future Is Getting Here

By Nicolas Rapold
January 2, 2019
By any standard, American cinema changed course this year

Climbing Higher Mountains

By Andrew Chan
January 2, 2019
Aretha Franklin leaves behind precious memories with the 1972 concert film Amazing Grace, finally released to us all

The Long View

By Dennis Lim
January 2, 2019
A reckoning with Argentine director Mariano Llinás’s marathon movie of the moment, an opus of various tones, genres, and cinematic madeleines

Nightcrawler

By Nick Pinkerton
December 12, 2018
The films of Jacques Tourneur journey into dark places and soul-searching moods

Film Comment Presents Free Nationwide Screenings of Black Panther

By Film Comment
November 16, 2018
Our March-April cover movie will return to the big screen with free screenings at nonprofit art house theaters nationwide on Tuesday, November 27.

Love and Theft

By Aliza Ma
November 1, 2018
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winner Shoplifters unsettles the family drama genre by focusing on society’s forgotten souls

Flow Through Me

By Amy Taubin
November 1, 2018
Willem Dafoe on his Oscar-nominated performance as Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate

Hope for Us Yet

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
November 1, 2018
In Happy as Lazzaro’s time-tripping parable of an innocent adrift, Alice Rohrwacher continues to shine a light into the darkness of modern times

Sing Your Life: Marnie at the Met

By Michael Koresky
October 19, 2018
Red alert: the story of trauma famously portrayed in Hitchcock’s film now takes flight as an opera