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Best Films of 2018

The winners of the annual Film Comment critics’ poll
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Best Undistributed Films of 2018

The winners of the annual Film Comment critics’ poll
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TCM Diary: Borzage’s Strange Cargo

Carrying on: Frank Borzage's allegorical film stars Joan Crawford as cabaret singer and Clark Gable as a thief
Read Justin Stewart’s article

Interview: Lars von Trier

Murder by numbers: the director of The House That Jack Built talks about directing Matt Dillon, depicting hell, anxiety and creativity, and the like
Read Nicolas Rapold's interview

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Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: The Best Movies of 2018

By Nicolas Rapold
Top of the heap: our live countdown and discussion of the year's best films

Reviews

Deep Focus: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

By Michael Sragow
Flat-out fun: the late superhero arrival to 2018 turns out to be deliciously entertaining

Interviews

Interview: Lars von Trier

By Nicolas Rapold
Murder by numbers: the director of The House That Jack Built talks about directing Matt Dillon, depicting hell, anxiety and creativity, and the like

Queer & Now & Then

Queer & Now & Then: 2013

By Michael Koresky
Under the radar: in Pit Stop, future Ballad of Buster Scruggs star Bill Heck impressed smaller audiences in a queer drama, like others before him

Phantom Light

Loving Memory: After Life and Shoplifters

By Imogen Sara Smith
The comforts of home: Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters and After Life bring out the fond detail of daily life

Features

Nightcrawler

By Nick Pinkerton
The films of Jacques Tourneur journey into dark places and soul-searching moods

TCM Diary

TCM Diary: Borzage’s Strange Cargo

By Justin Stewart
Carrying on: Frank Borzage's allegorical film stars Joan Crawford as cabaret singer and Clark Gable as a thief

News

News to Me: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lisandro Alonso, RIP Roeg and Bertolucci

By James Wham
New films by Apichatpong, George Miller, and others, and RIP Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci

Festivals

Interview: Naomi Kawase

By Ela Bittencourt
Self-reflections: the award-winning Japanese filmmaker talks about her intimate autobiographical documentary work