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Deep Focus: Shazam!

By Michael Sragow
April 11, 2019
Kid's stuff: after decades of portentous superhero movies, a little frivolousness can be recharging

Feeling Seen: We Need to Talk About Us

By K. Austin Collins and Devika Girish
April 10, 2019
Face off: a conversation about Jordan Peele’s Us and issues of horror, race, class, and criticism itself

Queer & Now & Then: 1966

By Michael Koresky
April 10, 2019
Two of a kind: if looked at through the right queer lens, Bergman's Persona could be among the most penetrating break-up movies ever made

The Film Comment Podcast: New Directors/New Films 2019

By Nicolas Rapold
April 10, 2019
Fresh perspective: a look back at the 2019 ND/NF and its slate of films about life on the margins

Dispatch: Qumra 2019

By Jordan Cronk
April 8, 2019
New age: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, and VR and its discontents at the Doha Film Institute's industry summit in Qatar

News to Me: Mike Leigh, Raúl Ruiz, and women in science fiction

By Film Comment
April 8, 2019
Space is the place: Claire Denis everywhere, William Kentridge, and multiple Pasolinis

Film of the Week: The Wind

By Jonathan Romney
April 5, 2019
Home on the range: Emma Tammi's new movie blends horror and Western genre elements, not always successfully

Classified: TV Movies

By April Wolfe
April 4, 2019
A tale as old as TV: John Llewellyn Moxey and the pre-streaming threat of the TV movie

The Film Comment Podcast: This Is What Democracy Looks Like

By Nicolas Rapold
April 3, 2019
On the march: what films like Peterloo and Us have to say about the messy process of collective governance

Deep Focus: Christ Stopped at Eboli

By Michael Sragow
April 3, 2019
Down to earth: in Francesco Rosi's political epic, an archetypal fish out of water comes to feel at home on very dry land