This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. As usual, a large number of the year’s best films won’t appear on many critics’ year-end roundups simply by ...

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. At a recent panel at Anthology Film Archives about new scans and restorations of the films of Sergei Parajanov, ...

I was knocked out by Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, a swooningly gorgeous film whose bloody heart and loose piriformis muscle is Daniel Craig’s performance as Bill Lee—a character who is as like and unlike ...

The results are in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment's contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2024 ...

Our Best Undistributed Films list, voted on by Film Comment contributors worldwide, recognizes the new films that were viewed—at festivals, or elsewhere—in 2024 but did not have U.S. distribution at ...

“The guy practically lives on a Clue board,” grumbles a cop (Lakeith Stanfield) early in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. He’s talking about Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a renowned mystery author ...

The results are now in for our 2024 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2024 in the ...

As told to Manu Yáñez Murillo. This is an extended version of an article that appears the May-June issue of Film Comment. I first knew about Raúl Ruiz through my father, Luis Alarcón, who was a ...

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In the purposefully methodical and implicitly somber School of Seduction – Three Stories from Russia, director Alina Rudnitskaya spent nearly a decade shadowing three women she originally met at a ...

(Directed by Mario Monicelli; screenplay by Monicelli and Age Scarpelli; produced by Franco Cristaldi; distributed by Walter Reade-Sterling, Inc.; 226 minutes; b/w.) By Yale Udoff in the Summer 1964 ...