The results are in for our 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors and colleagues! On this page you’ll find a selection of the individual ballots submitted by our voters for the Best Films of 2025 ...

It’s likely the case that there were tens of thousands of short films released into the world this year. (Sundance alone fielded 11,153 short-film submissions.) Naturally, the reader will expect the ...

Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He frequently writes for the Criterion Collection, and hosts and ...

Two teenage boys pushing a giant subwoofer down a desolate, nocturnal Tokyo street. A heist in an autumnal New England town comically distended by a station wagon whose cargo hold can only be accessed ...

(Neil Jordan, U.S./Ireland, 2009)Swooping across sparkling azure waters, the first shots of Neil Jordan’s Ondine envision Ireland amid a sea bubbling with ancient mystical forces. When the camera ...

It’s a sign of how quickly things change in the movie business, but there was no such thing conceptually as a “reboot.” That idea didn’t exist when I came to look at Batman. That’s new terminology.

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Streaming PickLarry Clark's photographs and films dwell on the twilight of adolescence and the dawning of adulthood, often featuring violent collisions between seductive, impersonal cultural forces ...

The Girl on the Bridge The blindingly blonde fifties no-good-girl Beverly Michaels may have started young (she was a child model at age 9), but to watch her in her greatest films—post-noir low-rent ...

(Elia Suleiman, France/Belgium/Italy, 2009)Although it actually stands as the final act in Elia Suleiman’s loosely linked trilogy of semi-autobiographical “chronicles” of Palestinian life (Chronicle ...

Back in the day, Tucson photographer Bob Broder used to string for The Arizona Republic. Eric Kroll, another local—and former Taschen book editor—recently unearthed a stash of negatives Broder shot on ...