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Review:
Azor
By
Adam Nayman
September 13, 2021
Disappearing act: with its deceptively spare mise-en-scene and tamped-down performances, Andreas Fontana’s Dirty War thriller is a superlatively muted debut
Review:
Candyman
By
Nicholas Russell
August 30, 2021
Say my name: Nia DaCosta’s reimagining of the ’90s horror classic takes itself too seriously to be much fun
Film Comment Recommends:
The French
By
Clinton Krute
August 16, 2021
Faultlines: William Klein’s revealing portrait of the 1981 French Open is alternately sprawling and incisive
Review:
The Green Knight
By
Beatrice Loayza
August 2, 2021
Sticks and stones: David Lowery's latest transforms the Arthurian tale of chivalry into a digestible, sensation-driven coming-of-age narrative
Review:
Eyimofe
By
Matthew Eng
August 2, 2021
Restless souls: Arie and Chuko Esiri's Lagos-set debut feature traces the lives of two would-be immigrants with lustrous, world-widening detail
Forced Retirement
By
Genevieve Yue
August 2, 2021
Growing up: M. Night Shyamalan's latest,
Old
, is a grim, half-baked parable for a world emerging tentatively from a pandemic
Review:
The Disciple
By
Phuong Le
June 7, 2021
Master and man: in Chaitanya Tamhane’s meditative drama, an aspiring musician finds himself at a crossroads between mediocrity and monastic commitment
The Past Is Another Country
By
Sukhdev Sandhu
June 1, 2021
The home and the world: Jia Zhangke's luminous
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
looks back at China's rural past
Film Comment Recommends:
Four Roads
By
Courtney Duckworth
June 1, 2021
Distant constellations: Alice Rohrwacher's new pandemic short conjures intimacy in seclusion
Currents: Divinely Evil
By
Jordan Cronk
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere
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