John Early’s remarkable directorial debut filters the ravages of an eating disorder through the funny-yet-sincere lens of ...

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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 ...

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

Tom Hanks’s confident demeanor is as daunting as Mt. Rushmore and just as effective in discouraging speculation about who those men really are. In his office at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. The Queen may be Stephen Frears’s most subtle film, but it’s also a political time bomb that will ignite a firestorm of outrage in Britain. Frears and ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. Sirk’s extraordinary life has been marked by two abrupt and dramatic departures—at just those moments of dreamlike success that would have prompted most ...

Alan Clay, the protagonist of A Hologram for the King, gets afflicted with middle-age flop sweat in Saudi Arabia, where he attempts to sell King Abdullah a holographic communications system. Forty ...

Bong Joon Ho’s action allegory Snowpiercer is a postapocalyptic variety show of icky violence, gleefully acted political caricatures, herky-jerky pacing, and offbeat sight gags. Or, as the villainous ...

After a decade of critical rehabilitation, Howard Hawks now stands securely within the triumvirate of classical Hollywood commercial directors: Ford, Hitchcock, and Hawks, with Hawks perhaps playing ...

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