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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 ...

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 ...

A top-level film from an auteur at the height of his powers. More than anything I value film style, film form, and film authorship and Moonrise Kingdom is soaked in all three of these things. —Drake ...

Writing about Monte Hellman’s 1966 deathtrip Western The Shooting in the pages of FILM COMMENT in 2000, Chuck Stephens refers to the name of Warren Oates’s character, “Willet Gashade,” as “a moniker ...

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, ...

Cannes 2026 has arrived, and the Film Comment crew is on the ground, ready to cut through the noise with dispatches, interviews, Podcasts, a special Cannes Critics’ Grid, and much more. This year’s ...

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 ...

The group moves into the song’s funereal chorus—“Glory-O, Glory-O, to the bold Fenian men”—after a cut to a wide shot reveals them less huddled together than lined up, one by one, along the length of ...

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 ...

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 ...