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Reviews

Film Comment Recommends: The French

By Clinton Krute
August 16, 2021
Faultlines: William Klein’s revealing portrait of the 1981 French Open is alternately sprawling and incisive

Review: The Green Knight

By Beatrice Loayza
August 2, 2021
Sticks and stones: David Lowery's latest transforms the Arthurian tale of chivalry into a digestible, sensation-driven coming-of-age narrative

Review: Eyimofe

By Matthew Eng
August 2, 2021
Restless souls: Arie and Chuko Esiri's Lagos-set debut feature traces the lives of two would-be immigrants with lustrous, world-widening detail

Forced Retirement

By Genevieve Yue
August 2, 2021
Growing up: M. Night Shyamalan's latest, Old, is a grim, half-baked parable for a world emerging tentatively from a pandemic

Review: The Disciple

By Phuong Le
June 7, 2021
Master and man: in Chaitanya Tamhane’s meditative drama, an aspiring musician finds himself at a crossroads between mediocrity and monastic commitment

The Past Is Another Country

By Sukhdev Sandhu
June 1, 2021
The home and the world: Jia Zhangke's luminous Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue looks back at China's rural past

Film Comment Recommends: Four Roads

By Courtney Duckworth
June 1, 2021
Distant constellations: Alice Rohrwacher's new pandemic short conjures intimacy in seclusion

Currents: Divinely Evil

By Jordan Cronk
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore

By Dessane Lopez Cassell
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

Currents: The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

By Jordan Cronk
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere