Reviews

Film of the Week: Dragged Across Concrete

March 22, 2019

The thin blue line: S. Craig Zahler’s brutally violent cop film surfaces uncomfortable questions about racism, power, and complicity

Review: The Juniper Tree

By Mark Asch

March 14, 2019

Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm

The Big Screen: Ash Is Purest White

By Abby Sun

March 14, 2019

Jia Zhangke's latest, in theaters March 15, is a thankful return to the director's strengths

Review: Sophia Antipolis

By Naomi Keenan O'Shea

March 12, 2019

For the 24th edition of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance held a special essay contest. Film Comment presents the winning essay here.

The Big Screen: Black Mother

By José Teodoro

March 11, 2019

Khalik Allah’s latest finds the New York–based photographer and filmmaker expanding his purview to include the entire nation of Jamaica, his maternal homeland

The Big Screen: Gloria Bell

By Molly Haskell

March 7, 2019

Julianne Moore's Gloria is an emblem of a single woman triumphantly navigating middle age

Review: Greta

By Amy Taubin

February 28, 2019

Something wicked: a contemporary fairy tale draws out the darkness of a twisted mother/daughter bond

The Big Screen: Hotel by the River

By Andrew Chan

February 13, 2019

The inertia of language: the latest from Hong, a master of small talk, draws attention to the emptiness beneath the chatter

Short Take: Sorry Angel

By Matthew Connolly

February 13, 2019

Writer/director Christophe Honoré’s new film is a knowing and unsentimental tale of an intergenerational affair in mid-’90s France.

Short Take: Everybody Knows

By Steven Mears

February 11, 2019

A starry cast does its best to distract from Asghar Farhadi's thematic architecture, but it's as conspicuous as the drones that hover about the proceedings