Out on a limb: Kleber Mendonça Filho has ingeniously programmed a mixture of horror, science fiction, paranoid thriller, crime procedural, and personal documentary that inform his latest, The Secret Agentby David Beal
Articles published in the weekly Film Comment Letter between 2021—2025 have been organized into quarterly issues for the archive.
Being Yourself: George Clooney
Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in reverse, dazzling us with his grounded, earthbound presence by Adam Nayman
Gone fishing: the documentarian talks about his first feature in over a decade, an emotionally devastating and intricately layered letter to his son by David Schwartz
In character: the recipient of the 51st Chaplin Award discusses key roles, his approach to his craft, and the vision of the world he brings to every work
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Drumroll please: the results are now in for our 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films, with original appreciations from our critics, and more.
Our Best Undistributed Films list, voted on by FC contributors, recognizes new films that premiered in 2025 but did not have U.S. distribution at press time
Portrait galleries: festival highlights like Once Upon a Time in Harlem, I Want Your Sex, and If I Go Will They Miss Me offered a balm for independent art by Devika Girish
Final call: many of the best films at the fest’s last edition in Park City affirmed its late founder Robert Redford’s belief in “the unexpected perspective” by Amy Taubin
Mix it up: Madeline Whittle and Will Tavlin join to discuss The History of Concrete, Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild], and Nuisance Bear
Take a load off: Bilge Ebiri, Tim Grierson, and Madeline Whittle close out the fest, discussing The Weight, When a Witness Recants, Chasing Summer, and more
