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On Joie Lee in Do the Right Thing (and More)

By Cassie da Costa
February 19, 2016
Continuing our spotlight on black performers, a look at the enduring presence of a very special collaborator with Spike Lee

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?