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20 Best Undistributed Films of 2013

By Film Comment
December 16, 2013
Hot properties: the best films not in theaters... yet

Film Comment Selects: Ted Post In Memoriam

By Violet Lucca
December 16, 2013
Firing on all cylinders: a chat with programmer Jake Perlin about the enigmatic journeyman director Ted Post

Critical Dialogue: Inside Llewyn Davis

By Max Nelson
December 13, 2013
Odysseus at the Gaslight Café: the Coen Brothers' latest tale of timeless woe

Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

By Max Nelson
December 12, 2013
Twisty trails towards destiny, and even twistier syntax: the second Hobbit movie is everything you'd expect it to be

Film of the Week: Saving Mr. Banks

By Jonathan Romney
December 11, 2013
Therapy, Disney-style: unhappy childhoods subdued with kites and animated penguins

Festivals: Rome

By Olaf Möller
December 10, 2013
Springtime in November: the resurgent fest was, generally, a celebration of cinema in all its diversity and genius

Review: American Hustle

By Scott Foundas
December 9, 2013
Supported by high-powered performances, David O. Russell’s energetic film about a FBI sting shows the filmmaker reinventing—and rejuvenating—himself

Review: Lenny Cooke

By Frank Ombres
December 6, 2013
The amazing disappearing basketball star, in the Safdie Brothers' feature-documentary debut

Review: Out of the Furnace

By Morgan Wilcock
December 5, 2013
Man to man: blue-collar brothers in rural Pennsylvania hang tough

Film of the Week: White Reindeer

By Jonathan Romney
December 4, 2013
It's the most wonderful time of the year: finally, another fine cynical Christmas movie