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Animal Magnetism

By Erika Balsom
June 30, 2025
Bull in the heather: Albert Serra‘s challenging and visceral portrait of a matador is one of the year’s best films

Modern Love

By Guy Lodge
June 30, 2025
Walks beside me: an inclusive, elastic understanding of modern queer lives emerges across Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy

The Film Comment Podcast: GriGris with Malcolm Harris and Anselm Kizza-Besigye

By Film Comment
June 25, 2025
Fire escapes: the acclaimed author joins to discuss Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s 2013 thriller, cinematic portrayals of the climate crisis, and more

Tribeca 2025: Bigger Than the Screen

By Amy Taubin
June 23, 2025
Heroes and villains: the festival largely made good on its promise to show socially relevant works from independent and early-career filmmakers

Country Living

By Olivia Crough
June 23, 2025
This whole world: the films of Pierre Creton model a communal life removed from urban capitalism, nationalism, and traditional family structures

The Film Comment Podcast: Familiar Touch with Kathleen Chalfant and Molly Haskell

By Film Comment
June 18, 2025
Recipe for living: the stalwart actor talks to the legendary film critic about her latest role as an octogenarian settling into a nursing home

Kampung Film Festival 2025: Oceanic Feeling

By Sasha Han
June 16, 2025
Here today: a new festival defiantly reclaims a lost history, bringing contemporary and classic Cambodian cinema to a local audience

Interview: Alanis Obomsawin on The Children Have to Hear Another Story

By Caroline Monnet
June 16, 2025
Children‘s song: the 92-year-old filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and activist reflects on her influential body of work, currently the subject of a major retrospective at MoMA PS1

Interview: Christian Petzold on Mirrors No. 3

By Dennis Lim
June 9, 2025
Road music: the German auteur discusses his latest tale of hauntings and doublings, which follows a morose piano student who wanders into the life of an enigmatic woman

Cannes 2025: Lamming It

By Devika Girish
June 9, 2025
End of the road: new films by Kelly Reichardt, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Julia Ducournau, and Sergei Loznitsa explore the politics of time