Reviews

Review: Bronco Bullfrog

April 4, 2022

Motor away: Barney Platts-Mills’s newly restored gem is a tale of a teen struggling in a blighted urban landscape that is also a vivid document of the less-than-swinging side of late-’60s London

Review: Nitram

By Adam Nayman

March 28, 2022

Up in smoke: Justin Kurzel’s drama about the man behind a real-life mass shooting is restrained to a fault

Review: The Batman

By Michael Sragow

March 14, 2022

Urban decay: Despite Matt Reeves’s tip-top casting and his usual virtuosity, the latest Caped Crusader reboot fails to reimagine this by-now commonplace material

Review: Fabian: Going to the Dogs

By Ryan Swen

February 22, 2022

Bark vs. bite: In typical fashion, Dominik Graf’s latest resonates as both a fully fleshed-out melodrama and a grand portrait of Weimar-era Germany

Good Clean Fun

By Madeline Whittle

February 14, 2022

Dangerous minds: in the new Jackass Forever, persistence in the face of aging is a stunt in its own right

Film Comment Recommends: Songwriter

By Clinton Krute

February 14, 2022

Dang me: Alan Rudolph’s 1984 country-music comedy is a rough-and-rowdy good time, punctuated by a typically unhinged performance from Rip Torn

Some Desolate Shade

By Imogen Sara Smith

January 18, 2022

Fair is foul: Joel Coen's stark, stylized The Tragedy of Macbeth is an unmistakeably Coen-esque and eerily timely distillation of the Scottish play

Review: Hail the New Puritan

By Chloe Lizotte

November 1, 2021

Salem’s just up the road: Charles Atlas’s 1986 fictionalized doc celebrates “the exuberant anarchy of limbs moving through space.”

Review: Azor

By Adam Nayman

September 13, 2021

Disappearing act: with its deceptively spare mise-en-scene and tamped-down performances, Andreas Fontana’s Dirty War thriller is a superlatively muted debut

Review: Candyman

By Nicholas Russell

August 30, 2021

Say my name: Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of the ’90s horror classic takes itself too seriously to be much fun