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Founded in 1962 and originally released as a quarterly, Film Comment features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world.

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November-December 2015

Pro and con views on Son of Saul, Todd Haynes on Carol, Charles Bronson, Miguel Gomes on Arabian Nights, Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights, Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight, Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, Nicholas Hytner’s The Lady in the Van, John Crowley’s Brooklyn

September-October 2015

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin, Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room, Arnaud Desplechin’s  My Golden Days, Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter, Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, Douglas Fairbanks, Paul Schrader on widescreen, Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, the Nitrate Picture Show

July-August 2015

Noah Baumbach interview, Christian Petzold's Phoenix, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Pedro Costa's Horse Money, Richard Lester, the late films of René Clair, Cannes 2015 coverage, The Decline of Western CivilizationThe End of the Tour

May-June 2015

Albert Maysles, Martín Rejtman, special midsection on Korean cinema, Kent Jones in defense of storytelling, Dominik Graf, Hope Emerson, Berlin film festival, Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden, Andrew Bujalski's Results, Matías Piñeiro on Carole Lombard

March-April 2015

Bertrand Bonello’s Saint Laurent, Robert Redford profile, Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, John Boorman, Kent Jones on acting and film criticism, our annual Grosses Gloss, a set report from Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour, Peter Strickland’s Guilty Pleasures, Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young

January-February 2015

Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's What We Do in the Shadows, Aleksei German's Hard to Be a God, Ava DuVernay's Selma, Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure, 2014 critics' poll & year-end wrap-up, state of art-house exhibition, art-house theater directory, Michael Glawogger, Henry King’s Margie, Xavier Dolan's Mommy, Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy, Rob Marshall's Into the Woods, Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu, Clint Eastwood's American Sniper