Features

Noblesse Oblige: Helen Mirren

By Ella Taylor

April 27, 2018

An excerpt of an essay on the 44th Chaplin Award honoree and star of The Queen, Gosford Park, and many other films

Noblesse Oblige

By Ella Taylor

April 7, 2018

Whether playing a royal or a police detective, Helen Mirren has always commanded attention while staying cool and collected

Mother Earth

By Amy Taubin

February 26, 2018

An unclassifiable, unflinching eco-mystery, Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor shows off the pioneering Pole’s stylistic verve—and nerves of steel

Out of This World

By Devika Girish

February 24, 2018

Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther envisions an alternate future for a troubled genre and a troubling reality, pointing the way toward more political, playful science fiction

Film Comment Selects: Nico Papatakis

By Yonca Talu

February 21, 2018

Radical methods: an excerpt from the September/October feature about the political filmmaker

The Other Side of Hope

By Andrew Chan

January 3, 2018

In Pingyao, filmmaker Jia Zhangke adds a brand-new festival to a bursting portfolio—but where does an art-house mogul fit into today’s China?

Love, After a Fashion

By Sheila O'Malley

January 3, 2018

With elegant force, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread curls round an ineffable, unstable romantic attention without which life is unlivable

I’ve Seen You Somewhere Before: Soulmates in Ophuls’s Letter from an Unknown Woman

By Molly Haskell

December 13, 2017

The marrying kind: what love means in this sumptuous adaptation of a Stefan Zweig novel

Now It’s Dark

By Aliza Ma

November 3, 2017

There’s no breadcrumb trail back from David Lynch’s 18-episode journey into the void, Twin Peaks: The Return

Night Gallery

By Violet Lucca

November 3, 2017

The Return brought the radical multimedia art of David Lynch into American living rooms