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Deep Focus: Good Boys

By Michael Sragow
August 16, 2019
Youth in revolt: profanity and banality make for a joy-killing combination in Gene Stupnitsky’s sixth-grade, fourth-rate farce

Interview: Roberto Minervini

By Eric Hynes
August 15, 2019
“Fear is a good thing”: the director of What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? on his powerful new doc

The Film Comment Podcast: Locarno 2019

By Nicolas Rapold
August 14, 2019
Shadows and light: programmers and critics Jessica Green and Jordan Cronk guest for a roundup of festival highlights

Queer & Now & Then: 1951

By Michael Koresky
August 14, 2019
School days: Jacqueline Audry’s melodrama Olivia all but luxuriates in an always imminent queer lust

Playlist: Punks, Poets & Valley Girls

By Clinton Krute
August 13, 2019
Pretty vacant: a series at BAM yields a varied mix of post-punk, minimalism, and smooth pop

Interview: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang

By Devika Girish
August 12, 2019
Family matters: the directors of One Child Nation on the psychological workings—and vestiges—of the decades-long Chinese policy

Deep Focus: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

By Michael Sragow
August 9, 2019
Losing heads: the Guillermo del Toro–produced adaptation of the popular children's series recreates the visceral impact of the original, but tames its absurdity

Feeling Seen: A Day of Us

By Jaime Grijalba
August 8, 2019
Animal magnetism: a Korean animated web-series touches upon the small truths of living with a partner

Present Tense: Out of the Blue

By Sheila O'Malley
August 8, 2019
Into the black: Dennis Hopper's doom-ridden, death-stalked film takes punk rock at its word

Film of the Week: The Cremator

By Jonathan Romney
August 8, 2019
Danse macabre: Juraj Herz's bracingly modern, anti-realist film lies on the delicate border between horror and social satire