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Deep Focus: The Way Back

By Michael Sragow
March 6, 2020
Yo teach: the Ben Affleck vehicle wants to be Manchester by the Sea on the hardwood, but it’s more like Hoosiers with a hangover

Film of the Week: Bacurau Redux

By Jonathan Romney
March 6, 2020
It takes a village: the Brazilian genre mashup is packed with both protest and what seems a prophetic intensity

The Film Comment Podcast: Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow

By Clinton Krute
March 6, 2020
Best buds: Phoebe Chen and Clinton Krute join to discuss Reichardt’s deceptively modest epic of the American frontier

Present Tense: Martha Coolidge

By Sheila O'Malley
March 4, 2020
Like, wow: the director of Valley Girl has compiled a long track record of sensitive and insightful films

The Film Comment Podcast: Berlinale 2020 Wrap-up

By Nicolas Rapold
March 4, 2020
Straight talk: a discussion of festival highlights Los Conductos and There Is No Evil—plus, Orwa Nyrabia on documentary ethics

See This: March Picks

By Film Comment
March 3, 2020
Some recent and upcoming films that we feel deserve a little extra attention—brought to you by Warby Parker

TCM Diary: Freedom on Our Mind

By Justin Stewart
March 3, 2020
We shall overcome: two documentaries that place current fights for justice in crucial historical context

Interview: Sandra Wollner

By Nicolas Rapold
March 2, 2020
I, robot: Berlin award-winner The Trouble With Being Born escapes the predictable beats of robot parables through a creeping sense of technology as perpetuating trauma

News to Me: Berlinale, Mati Diop, and Céline Sciamma

By James Wham
March 2, 2020
Outward bound: Dušan Makavejev, Wes Anderson, and David Cronenberg

Interview: Cristi Puiu

By Jordan Cronk
February 28, 2020
Platonic roundtable: the director of Malmkrog and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu delves into the drama of dialogue in his latest, a Berlinale premiere