Stop that train: the recursions of a painful past preoccupied many of the best films at this year’s edition of the Czech ...

This article appeared in the July 11, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Bebo’s Girl (Luigi ...

“I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert,” remarks Sandy (Laura Derm) to Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) at a crucial juncture in the harrowing new David Lynch picture, Blue Velvet. We never are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Window on the world: incarcerated journalist Phillip Vance Smith, II delves into how people in prisons watch movies—the streaming devices available, the viewing options, the costs of renting a film, ...

Poland is the birthplace of a number of modern cinema masters—Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Zanussi, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Roman Polanski, to list but a few. None, ...

The results are in for our 2023 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 2023 ...

The results are in for our 2023 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2023 in the United ...

Premised on illusion and promising endless reanimation, cinema is often called the ghostliest of mediums. Ghosts are themselves cinematic in essence, automatic disruptions in space and time. Movies ...

The results are in for our 2022 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from our critics, as well as ...

The cleverest idea in the film is seeing a man run up the outside stairs of a five-story building. Between each ascent the camera tilts down to the front of the building, and viewers wait for him to ...