In March 2020, a few days into New York’s COVID-19 lockdown, the visual artist Meriem Bennani posted a one and a half–minute clip to her Instagram captioned “2 Lizards Ep 1,” following it with seven ...

The animator’s dark, nuanced body of work functioned as a counterweight to Disney's brightly-lit dominance of the 1980s and ...

The results are in for our 2021 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! Our Top 20 lists in both the Released and Undistributed categories feature original appreciations from critics, as ...

This year on the Croisette, it’s easy to lose count of the number of logos that precede a film’s opening credits, representing money patchworked together from across multiple countries, each ...

Cannes 2026 is nearing its close, but the Film Comment crew has not slowed down one bit as we continue to cut through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, ...

The star of Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl, a NYFF featured restoration, recalls the making of the 1965 classic and the role of film culture Black Girl, directed by Ousmane Sembene, screens October 6 in ...

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 ...

The American political system, which expanded in the late Sixties to the point where it almost cracked from excessive heat, is now contracting and consolidating. The Left has renounced righteous ...

The experience of watching a Zulawski film is exponentially rewarding when you’ve had the pleasure of seeing more than one. As with all dense cinema—and much of Zulawski’s work is packed with wordy ...

Exploding cinema: the unbridled Id of Toshio Matsumoto’s late-Sixties avant-queer freak-out thrives in a new restoration Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 film Funeral Parade of Roses is a heady affair, ...

“I can’t help it. I ain’t going to vote Mr. Bookwright free.” Those words are spoken by Stonewall Jackson Fentry, the lead character in William Faulkner’s short story “Tomorrow,” first published in ...