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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

Excerpt: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan: The Triumph of Tribalism

By J. Hoberman

October 6, 2018

Barbarians at the gate: Conan set forth a big, dumb anthem to destruction that can be heard to this day

The Turning of the Earth

By José Teodoro

September 10, 2018

Alfonso Cuarón’s richly realized Roma surrounds us with the bourgeois Mexico City of his youth, seen through the eyes of another

Intimations of Mortality

By Nicolas Rapold

September 4, 2018

Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

The Paragon of Animals

By Michael Koresky

September 4, 2018

With their multi-part yarn The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers mosey on back to the Old West to survey the eternal disappointment that is man