In addition to premieres in the main Crystal Globe competition and the more experimental Proxima section (about which, more ...

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 ...

For his first feature film after a career of music-video collaborations with artists like Bad Bunny and Rosalía, the elusive and often masked filmmaker known as Stillz (real name: Matías Vásquez) ...

This week, Film Comment Editor Clinton Krute is in the Czech Republic, reporting on the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Located in a picturesque spa town, the fest has long been the ...

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

A handful of films won multiple awards over the weekend as the 2016 Sundance Film Festival came to a close. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation—the story of Nat Turner and the 1831 slave ...

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 ...

Clarissa (Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, 2026). Courtesy of Neon. It’s not unusual for the Cannes Film Festival to open amidst controversy; Festival Director Thierry Frémaux alone can usually be relied ...

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, ...