This question has haunted the Berlinale since its founding in 1951; and it became newly charged two years ago, amid a call for a boycott of state-funded German cultural institutions, and certain ...

Window dressing: maybe, because it’s 2026, and we are all so very tired, we are getting the Wuthering Heights we deserve—a limp one ...

It’s a sign of how quickly things change in the movie business, but there was no such thing conceptually as a “reboot.” That idea didn’t exist when I came to look at Batman. That’s new terminology.

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The results are now in for our 2025 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 2025 in the ...

Present Tense is a column by Sheila O’Malley that reflects on the intersections of film, literature, art, and culture. Tatum O’Neal in The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie, 1976) “Laced with ...

“From the shores of my peace, luck, games, and satisfaction, someone with a horrible force of war, which I am terrified of, is trying to pull me, and pull me away.” —Zlata Filipovic, a 12-year-old ...

If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child. Where Ray’s ...

For modernist poet H.D. and her contemporaries at the journal Close Up, the young medium of cinema lit up the room with soul-stirring force By Sheila O'Malley in the May-June 2020 Issue The Madonna of ...

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 ...

Taxi Driver has a lot of negative aspects, but it would be silly to shrug off its baroque visuals and its high-class actor, Robert De Niro, whose acting range is always underscored by a personal ...