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Reviews

See This: September Picks

By Film Comment
September 13, 2019
Some new (and old) films that we feel deserve a little extra attention—brought to you by Warby Parker

Film of the Week: Babyteeth

By Jonathan Romney
September 6, 2019
Faith healer: director Shannon Murphy's Venice competition debut turns the story of a stricken teenager and her wild paramour into something fresh and bright

The Big Screen: Aquarela

By Fatima Naqvi
August 15, 2019
In Victor Kossakovsky’s masterful essay film, water in all its forms provides the scale against which human life is to be measured

The Big Screen: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

By Michael Koresky
August 14, 2019
In his latest, Richard Linklater confronts the gap between youthful expectation and the specter of failure

The Big Screen: The Nightingale

By Nathan Lee
August 1, 2019
Jennifer Kent is a genuine filmmaker of ideas, but The Nightingale is clipped by problems of form

The Big Screen: The Farewell

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
July 11, 2019
Lulu Wang’s film leaves you marveling at sincerity, selflessness, and grace

Review: Midsommar

By Madeline Whittle
July 2, 2019
Fun in the sun: Ari Aster’s folk horror flick is a many-splendored—and many-categoried—thing

The Big Screen: The Chambermaid

By Lawrence Garcia
June 24, 2019
Lila Avilés’s natural filmmaking talents are on full display from the jump

Ken Jacobs’s The Sky Socialist

By Amy Taubin
June 14, 2019
The man upstairs: after roughly 55 years, the filmmaker has completed work on his legendary ode to Ferry Street

The Scorpion and the Frog: Orson Welles’ Mr. Arkadin

By Peter Bogdanovich and Gorden Hitchens
June 12, 2019
A "new" film by Orson Welles makes its American debut