Reviews

Short Take: Dogman

April 11, 2019

Matteo Garrone's latest, in theaters April 12, illustrates the ruinous effects organized crime can have on even its most puppyish bit players

Short Take: Suburban Birds

By Chloe Lizotte

April 4, 2019

Concrete jungle: in Qiu Sheng’s tale of urban life, bureaucracy behaves like a cosmic force of nature

The Big Screen: Peterloo

By Shonni Enelow

April 3, 2019

Speaking of freedom: Mike Leigh’s new film, opening April 5, is theatrical in the most classical and least pejorative sense

Review: Us

By Ina Diane Archer

March 26, 2019

Return of the repressed: Jordan Peele's latest throws the audience into a house of mirrors

Review: Pain and Glory

By Manu Yáñez Murillo

March 22, 2019

Time regained: Almodóvar’s latest is a heart-rending, meditative, and deeply confessional culmination of his prolonged immersion in the waters of autofiction

Film of the Week: Dragged Across Concrete

By Jonathan Romney

March 22, 2019

The thin blue line: S. Craig Zahler’s brutally violent cop film surfaces uncomfortable questions about racism, power, and complicity

Review: The Juniper Tree

By Mark Asch

March 14, 2019

Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm

The Big Screen: Ash Is Purest White

By Abby Sun

March 14, 2019

Jia Zhangke's latest, in theaters March 15, is a thankful return to the director's strengths

Review: Sophia Antipolis

By Naomi Keenan O'Shea

March 12, 2019

For the 24th edition of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance held a special essay contest. Film Comment presents the winning essay here.

The Big Screen: Black Mother

By José Teodoro

March 11, 2019

Khalik Allah’s latest finds the New York–based photographer and filmmaker expanding his purview to include the entire nation of Jamaica, his maternal homeland