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The Film Comment Podcast: The Best Films of 2025

By Film Comment
December 12, 2025
Drumroll, please: critics Bilge Ebiri and Amy Taubin join for a real-time countdown of the films topping our year-end critics’ poll

A Man of the World

By Michael Blair
December 1, 2025
It starts at home: a new DVD collection charts the artist Michael Smith’s enduring interest in the life and times of his hapless everyman alter-ego

Restoring Images: Tokyo International Film Festival 2025

By Devika Girish
December 1, 2025
Past imperfect: many of the highlights of the festival reflected on how we remember troubled pasts

The Film Comment Podcast: Kleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent

By Film Comment
November 25, 2025
Times of mischief: the Brazilian auteur joins to discuss his latest, an endlessly inventive excavation of the specifics of past and place

Book Review: Ross Lipman’s The Archival Impermanence Project

By Lily Grossbard
November 24, 2025
Print tests: the renowned restorationist’s new collection provides a much-needed meta-analysis of the film-preservation discipline

The Afterlives of Éclair

By Alice Lovejoy
November 24, 2025
Factory dreams: the artist-run collective L’Abominable imagines a future for the film laboratory in the ruins of the legendary French studio

The Film Comment Podcast: Noah Baumbach on Jay Kelly

By Film Comment
November 18, 2025
Can I go again? The writer-director discusses his latest, a screwball caper—with a touch of Baumbachian melancholy—about a regretful movie star played by George Clooney

Day by Day

By Daniel Zheng
November 17, 2025
Portraits in life: Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, a not-quite-biopic about the renowned photographer, finds its magic in the mundane

Tender Pains

By Ayanna Dozier
November 17, 2025
Suffering embraces: Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism through a soft and attentive lens

The Film Comment Podcast: Tokyo International Film Festival 2025

By Film Comment
November 14, 2025
Taking the stage: a stellar rotation of critics explore the lineup of one of Asia’s major film events