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Film of the Week: Cocote

By Jonathan Romney
July 27, 2018
Cycle of life: vengeance and injustice loom over a homecoming in a passionate new film from Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias

Deep Focus: Mission: Impossible – Fallout

By Michael Sragow
July 26, 2018
Can-do attitude: the latest entry in the action franchise wrings some more suspense out of its espionage hijinks

The Film Comment Podcast: The Russians

By Nicolas Rapold
July 26, 2018
Red state: the recent, and complex, history of Putin’s protectorate has fueled energetic responses from filmmakers

News to Me: Martín Rejtman, Jonathan Glazer, Amma Asante

By Chloe Lizotte
July 24, 2018
Left coast: Martin Rejtman returns, Jonathan Glazer reflects on atrocity, Amma Asante’s next film, and Boots Riley’s projects

Beautiful Work: The Female Gaze in Beau Travail, La France, and The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

By Imogen Sara Smith
July 24, 2018
The way I see it: a series on female cinematographers at the Film Society of Lincoln Center invites a closer look at how we look

Film of the Week: The Third Murder

By Jonathan Romney
July 19, 2018
Open to interpretation: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s legal drama about a murder blurs the line between enigmatic and perhaps merely vague

The Film Comment Podcast: Boots Riley and Questlove

By Nicolas Rapold
July 18, 2018
The means of production: the director of Sorry to Bother You talks about his brilliant, bizarre work of pop radicalism, in our latest Film Comment Free Talk

Queer & Now & Then: 1971

By Michael Koresky
July 18, 2018
Organized mutiny: William Greaves’s reflexive landmark Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One has more than meta-shenanigans on its mind

News to Me: Angela Schanelec, Jim Jarmusch, Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Chloe Lizotte
July 16, 2018
Missing person report: Schanelec’s next film, Jarmusch undead again and loving it, and world cinema by Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Film of the Week: What Will People Say

By Jonathan Romney
July 13, 2018
Shock of the new: a free-spirited teen girl from an immigrant Muslim family in Norway must learn how to navigate tradition.