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Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie + W.

By Violet Lucca

February 18, 2016

Open season: the dos and don'ts of long-form political satire

A Room with a View (1985)

By Farran Smith Nehme

February 17, 2016

How soon is now: Merchant-Ivory's superb E.M. Forster adaptation celebrates the subtleties of the text and the pangs of love

Film Comment Selects: Andrzej Żuławski

By Daniel Bird

February 17, 2016

In memoriam: reflections upon the peerless Polish director of Cosmos, On the Silver Globe, and more

On Debbi Morgan in Eve’s Bayou (1997)

By Steven Mears

February 12, 2016

Second sight: Debbi Morgan upstages Samuel L. Jackson in Kasi Lemmons’s 1997 Southern Gothic, part of our Black History Month appreciation of outstanding performances

Parallel Universe: The Age of Dell

By David Filipi

February 10, 2016

When 2001: A Space Odyssey was a comic book, and a different empire of adaptations reigned

Hail, Caesar! + Illusions

By Violet Lucca

February 9, 2016

Who runs the dream factory? Two films that inject fantasy into Hollywood fact

Knowing Me, Knowing You: I Knew Her Well + Marguerite

By Violet Lucca

February 2, 2016

Unnatural beauty: two films about female performers who can't quite take control of their image

Matters of Life and Death: Mike Nichols

By Richard Combs

January 29, 2016

How the director charted the state of things and imagined other possibilities

Let Us Go Then: On 45 Years

By David Thomson

January 28, 2016

Does the marriage in Andrew Haigh's chamber drama have an unhappy center, or is there simply nothing there?

Flower of Carnage: The Birth of Lady Snowblood

By Marc Walkow

January 26, 2016

The making of a badass: the confluence of talent that created Japanese cinema’s fierce ice queen