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Family Matters

Bite our style: Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals of Missy Elliott
Read Ayanna Dozier’s essay

The Film Comment Podcast: New Releases

Out with the old: critic Tim Grierson joins FC editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute to discuss recent offerings Mickey 17, Opus, Misericordia, Eephus, and more
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Berlinale 2025: Stuck in the Middle

Take two: at this year‘s festival, overtly political films by Bong Joon Ho and Tom Twyker struggled to meet the moment, while more ruminative fare from Lucile Hadžihalilović and Richard Linklater offered unalloyed pleasures
Read Jonathan Romney‘s Essay

You‘re Projecting #4

By Film Comment
Bootlegger‘s dilemma: critic Abby Sun answers a reader‘s question about the ethics of piracy in a skewed distribution landscape

The Film Comment Podcast: Oscars 2025 with LARB

Pain and glory: Eric Newman and Paul Thompson, editors of the Los Angeles Review of Books, join to discuss, debate, and dismantle this year’s nominees, from Anora to Emilia Pérez to Nickel Boys, and more

Berlinale 2025: All That Is Solid

By Ela Bittencourt
Inside out: this year’s edition was suffused with an uneasy mood, expressed by many of the standout selections, including Mickey 17, Kontinental ’25, Special Operation, and Friendship’s Death

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Features

Inland Empires

By Max Goldberg
Alone again or: Ben Rivers’s latest Bogancloch—a continuation of the British filmmaker’s collaboration with a hermit—is notable for its exquisite play with duration, attention, and the very form of the observational documentary

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: The Frederick Wiseman Potluck

By Film Comment
Bon appetit: Andrew Katzenstein, Genevieve Yue, and Michael Blair join the FC editors to dish up favorite titles from the legendary American filmmaker’s body of work

Festivals

IFFR 2025: Another World

By Devika Girish
Rise up: a special retrospective series at this year‘s festival captured the revolutionary promise of the historic Afro-Asian Film Festivals of the 1950s and ’60s

Interviews

Interview: Jennifer Reeves on The Gloria of Your Imagination

By Paul Attard
Double exposure: the experimental filmmaker‘s latest feature combines avant-garde techniques, nonfiction footage, and live-performance elements

Festivals

IFFR 2025: Faded Glory

By Jordan Cronk
Video life: highlights of this year’s edition included films by Alex Ross Perry, Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Julian Castronovo, and more

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: You’re Projecting #3 – Valentine’s Day Edition

By Film Comment
Lovestreams: author Haley Mlotek and filmmaker Matthew Rankin answer your questions about romance, cinema, and the space between