The Best NYC Repertory Screenings of 2025

The Best Scenes of 2025

Two teenage boys pushing a giant subwoofer down a desolate, nocturnal Tokyo street. A heist in an autumnal New England town comically distended by a station wag…

Best Films of 2025: Individual Ballots

Read a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2025 category…

The Film Comment Podcast: The Best Films of 2025

Drumroll, please: critics Bilge Ebiri and Amy Taubin join for a real-time countdown of the films topping our year-end critics' poll.…

Best Undistributed Films of 2025

Our Best Undistributed Films list, voted on by FC contributors, recognizes new films that premiered in 2025 but did not have U.S. distribution at press time…

Best Films of 2025

Drumroll please: 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, with original…

A Man of the World

It starts at home: a new DVD collection charts the artist Michael Smith’s enduring interest in the life and times of his hapless everyman alter-ego…

Restoring Images: Tokyo International Film Festival 2025

Past imperfect: many of the highlights of the festival reflected on how we remember troubled pasts…

The Film Comment Podcast: Kleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent

Times of mischief: the Brazilian auteur joins to discuss his latest, an endlessly inventive excavation of the specifics of past and place…

Book Review: Ross Lipman’s The Archival Impermanence Project

Print tests: the renowned restorationist’s new collection provides a much-needed meta-analysis of the film-preservation discipline…

The Afterlives of Éclair

Factory dreams: the artist-run collective L’Abominable imagines a future for the film laboratory in the ruins of the legendary French studio…

The Film Comment Podcast: Noah Baumbach on Jay Kelly

Can I go again? The writer-director discusses his latest, a screwball caper—with a touch of Baumbachian melancholy—about a regretful movie star played by George…

Tender Pains: A Body to Live In

Suffering embraces: Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism through a soft …

Day by Day: Peter Hujar’s Day

Portraits in life: Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, a not-quite-biopic about the renowned photographer, finds its magic in the mundane…

The Film Comment Podcast: Tokyo International Film Festival 2025

Taking the stage: a stellar rotation of critics explore the lineup of one of Asia’s major film events…

Ken and Flo Jacobs: A Love Story

Eternalisms: a tribute to the indefatigable husband and wife pair, whose art was a neverending process of revelation…

Interview: Lynne Ramsay on Die My Love

In spite of ourselves: the Scottish auteur discusses her latest, a typically precise portrait of an inscrutable character…

Interview: Arturo Ripstein

Realms of fortune: the legendary Mexican filmmaker discusses his sixty-year plus career…

Interview: Mary Stephen on Ombres de soie and Palimpsest

Rewriting the past: the Hong Kong-born, Paris based filmmaker and editor reflects on her first and latest features…

The Film Comment Podcast: Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

What time is it?: critics and programmers Miriam Bale and Adam Piron join to discuss PTA’s latest's successes and failures, how it fits into his larger body of …

The Aging Artist

Once more?: Jay Kelly, Late Fame, and Is This Thing On? ask whether their protagonists have the energy and motivation to continue…

Hair and Water

Refusing the waves: Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling revive the image of the self-drowned woman with a bracing liter…

Time Has Told Me

Paint work: Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is fun and funny, but it also just might be her most chilling portrait of America to date…

Interview: Geeta Gandbhir on The Perfect Neighbor

For those of us fatigued by the carnivorous cycle perpetuated by narratives and images of police brutality, Geeta Gandbhir’s latest, The Perfect Neighbor, funct…