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Cannes: Toni! Toni! Toni!

By Amy Taubin
May 16, 2016
Parental guidance suggested: on Maren Ade's screwball comedy Toni Erdmann, which achieves true greatness—and then some

Critical Care: Dr. Frederick Wiseman

By Matt Morrison
May 13, 2016
A doctor reflects on the views of medical treatment offered in Titicut Follies, Hospital, and Near Death

Representation + Belladonna of Sadness

By Violet Lucca
May 12, 2016
From reverence to rape: parsing the form and function of a provocative, newly restored cult animation classic

Dissident Voices: Post-Revolutionary Cuban Cinema

By Alejandro Veciana
May 6, 2016
A road map to the wide-ranging styles of—and official responses to—contemporary Cuban film

Too Late for Tears (1949) + Woman on the Run (1950)

By Farran Smith Nehme
May 6, 2016
Can't help it: two rescued and refurbished noirs that showcase femme fatales Lizabeth Scott and Ann Sheridan

A Note from the New Editor

By Film Comment
May 2, 2016
The best is yet to come: on the exciting changes to our editorial team

Prince Among Men: Under the Cherry Moon

By Sean Doyle
April 29, 2016
Never hold back: what the follow-up to Purple Rain says about the artist's headlong passion as a performer

Artists + Making It

By Violet Lucca
April 22, 2016
The moment of creation: getting beyond the myth of tortured artistes in both nonfiction and fiction films

Private Property (1960)

By Farran Smith Nehme
April 22, 2016
Plastic houses for plastic people: rediscovering Leslie Stevens's long-lost film of sexual repression, class, and murderous intent in the 'burbs

Voice of Reason: Morgan Freeman

By Graham Fuller
April 18, 2016
An essay on the 43rd Chaplin Award honoree and star of Street Smart, Invictus, and Amistad