Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey offers up a strangely bloodless vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods ...

Balls of Fire. This year’s edition of the Italian festival devoted to restored and rediscovered films brought the hea ...

Critics Robert Daniels and Guy Lodge join to discuss a pair of buzzed-about Bulgarian films and other highlights from the ...

Robert Daniels joins to discuss festival highlights Dao, The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld, 3 Weeks After, and more ...

Critic Pavel Sladký and programmer Irena Kovarova kick off our coverage from the Czech festival’s 60th edition ...

Perhaps best known as the host of Ways of Seeing, the 1972 BBC program that introduced a generation to the ideological analysis of visual art, John Berger was one of the most important writers of the ...

Nigerian-born, U.K.–based brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri announced themselves as filmmakers to watch with their 2020 debut feature Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), a subtly observed, woozily beautiful ...

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, ...

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 in full swing and the Film Comment crew is on the ground, cutting through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, and much more. This year’s ...

From the Sept-Oct 1986 Midsection, “Five Restless Voices,” Marlaine Glicksman talks to the filmmaker about She’s Gotta Have It. Marlaine Glicksman Read this story as part of the archived issue. You so ...

What would it mean for a film to meet the moment, especially a moment as calamitous as ours? To be honest, the very thought rings alarm bells: many recent movies that are said to have accomplished ...