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This Charming Man

How Soon Is Now? The Killer, David Fincher’s latest entry in the canon of cinema du sociopath is a sleek, meticulously assembled film lives up to its punny tagline: “Execution Is Everything.”
Read Nathan Lee’s essay

Tiny King

Big plans: the latest from Ridley Scott, trailblazing auteur–turned–late-career journeyman, is an epic biopic of the war-mongering emperor that turns out to be a bit weirder than it initially seems
Read Mark Asch’s Essay

The Film Comment Podcast: Trust Issues at NYFF61

Don’t lie to me: filmmakers Rosine Mbakam, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Frederick Wiseman join to discuss the slippery nature of truth on screen
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The Film Comment Podcast: Mumbai Film Festival 2023

Gateway art: Inney Prakash joins to discuss this year's Mumbai Film Festival, an oasis for indie cinema in the glitzy homebase of Bollywood

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