Published by Film at Lincoln Center

From the New Issue

House of the Spirits

By Jordan Cronk
January 6, 2020
Pedro Costa returns with the masterful Vitalina Varela—quite possibly the most beautiful film of 2020

The Strength of Street Knowledge

By Craigh Barboza
September 13, 2019
Pioneering filmmaker John Singleton captured the humanity and horrors of the modern urban world

Lost and Found

By Michael Koresky
September 3, 2019
Pedro Almodóvar taps into both the anguish and the eroticism of memory in Pain and Glory, his most personal film yet

Lonesome Trails

By Nicolas Rapold
July 1, 2019
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood yearns for the liberating powers of storytelling and finds flickers of life in painted sunsets and broken dreams

False Idols

By Christina Newland
June 7, 2019
David Essex’s sly, self-aware performance in That’ll Be The Day goes well beyond the usual dictates of a star vehicle

Write What You Know

By Devika Girish
June 4, 2019
Cheerfully on point, workplace comedy Late Night plays out complex issues with the easy candor of its star, Mindy Kaling

I Know Where I’m Going

By Sheila O'Malley
May 1, 2019
In Joanna Hogg's sublime breakout The Souvenir, a budding artist strives to stay true to her path despite a consuming romance

The Big Screen: Peterloo

By Shonni Enelow
April 3, 2019
Speaking of freedom: Mike Leigh’s new film, opening April 5, is theatrical in the most classical and least pejorative sense

The Point of No Return

By Nick Pinkerton
March 1, 2019
Claire Denis’s volatile High Life bonds sex and death drives through the space voyage of convicts condemned to the void

Playing Along: Leonard Rosenman (Edge of the City, 1957)

By Carlos Valladares
February 20, 2019
A master of frenetic mood, the Hollywood composer brought a dark mania to films like the 1957 urban drama Edge of the City