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Seeing Double: Shane & Everybody Wants Some!!

By Sheila O'Malley

September 7, 2021

Are we not men: Two films, from 1953 and 2016, subtly undermine traditional definitions of masculinity

The Film Comment Podcast: Smaller Festivals

By Film Comment

August 31, 2021

Local haunts: Jordan Cronk joins to discuss highlights from FIDMarseille, Arsenal Institute's Archival Assembly #1, and others

Film Comment Recommends: Spring Forward

By Steven Mears

August 30, 2021

Trailblazing: the recently departed Ned Beatty gives a tour de force of soul-stirring restraint in Tom Gilroy's 2000 drama

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

Skipping Stones

By Jeff Reichert

August 30, 2021

At sea: Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella is a puzzle-like meditation on entering middle-age, admitting defeat, and beginning anew

Film Comment Recommends: Cryptozoo

By Mark Asch

August 23, 2021

Animal planet: Dash Shaw’s animated phantasmagoria draws from diverse influences in an attempt to renew a jaded audience’s capacity for awe and terror

Seeing Double: Déjà Vu & All Light, Everywhere

By Jessica Dunn Rovinelli

August 23, 2021

Lens flare: the filmmaker looks at two films that raise questions about how might we use cameras to bear witness to—and shape—a better future

Locarno 2021: CINEMA IS BACK

By Jessica Kiang

August 23, 2021

Beam me up: the 2021 selection was studded with striking titles, including Espíritu Sagrado, Holy Emy, and A Thousand Fires

Locarno 2021: Mass Appeal

By Jordan Cronk

August 23, 2021

Religious experience: three films point to a way forward for a Locarno that caters to both cinephiles and the masses

The Film Comment Podcast: Sex Work in Cinema

By Film Comment

August 17, 2021

9 to 5: So Mayer and Sarah Fonseca discuss the depiction of sex work in Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls, Tsai Ming-liang’s Days, and more