Film Comment Magazine

David Thomson Film Comment Magazine Nov 6, 2024 This movie seems a radical step for Almereyda, and more attentive to the nature of the medium than anything he has attempted before. Go to Full Review Experimenter (2015) 84% 61%

Andrew Chan Film Comment Magazine Mar 5, 2024 In his determination to position the film as a universal love story, Lou sacrifices the political engagement and specificity that makes the work of queer auteurs... so valuable Go to Full Review Spring Fever (2009) 47% 55%

Nathan Lee Film Comment Magazine Feb 2, 2024 Directed with rigorous tact, L'Amour fou is unconcerned with speaking through any historical framework. It is devoted, rather, to the calm, thoughtful, and ultimately elusive reflections of M. Berg on the dismantling of a legacy. Go to Full Review L'amour fou (2010) - - - -

Kathleen Murphy Film Comment Magazine Oct 18, 2023 We're taken in at our own risk, hooked on the film's speed, the power of its sights and sounds. Our nerve endings occasionally scream caveats... But we never doubt that a master at the top of his game is calling the shots. Go to Full Review Goodfellas (1990) 93% 97%

Michael Sragow Film Comment Magazine Mar 14, 2023 Klimov’s dramatic vitality, his control of shifting tones, and his mastery of surprise are what galvanize Come and See. Terrifying as this movie is, we always want to know what happens next. Go to Full Review Come and See (1985) 90% 96%

Jamsheed Akrami Film Comment Magazine Dec 14, 2022 A testament to the power of film to challenge a culture of blind obedience, and also to Panahi’s efforts, as a dissident filmmaker, to build a cinema of defiance against the propagandist film apparatus of the state. Go to Full Review No Bears (2022) 99% 80%

Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson Film Comment Magazine Dec 7, 2022 [Akerman, Seyrig, and Mangolte] are seemingly in perfect accord as to what they want to say about a tradition-bound treadmill whose back-forth, up-down existence is the phenomenological stuff of this movie, what other movies leave out. Go to Full Review Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) 95% 80%

Amy Taubin Film Comment Magazine Oct 6, 2022 The film is a restless journey through the political and social mainstreaming of China in the first two decades of the 21st century. Go to Full Review Ash Is Purest White (2018) 99% - -

Mark Harris Film Comment Magazine May 4, 2022 Up the Down Staircase remains a fascinating snapshot of an evolving film culture and of an evolving city, as revealing for what it can’t show as for what it can. Go to Full Review Up the Down Staircase (1967) 78% 68%

Devika Girish Film Comment Magazine Dec 9, 2021 The parallels to the Indian state's excesses are evident, but Singh doesn't belabor the point... Go to Full Review The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (2020) 93% - -

Beatrice Loayza Film Comment Magazine Dec 6, 2021 The Green Knight's attempts to blend a young man's personal reckonings and psychic confrontations with Lowery's go-for-broke stylings feel less virtuously enigmatic than flat and disjointed in their opaque graspings at profundity. Go to Full Review The Green Knight (2021) 88% 50%

Maitland McDonagh Film Comment Magazine Jun 16, 2021 The Amusement Park is sharp social commentary rooted in brutal reality, a clear cousin to Romero's Living Dead movies despite the fact that it was a work-for-hire project. Go to Full Review The Amusement Park (1975) 97% 70%

Eric Hynes Film Comment Magazine Jan 21, 2021 As with many resonant works of narrative art, its extreme particularity has universal echoes. Go to Full Review Mother (2019) 92% - -

Eric Hynes Film Comment Magazine Sep 15, 2020 It's in the film's non-dioramic elements, the observational and candid moments, that life is most urgently asserted. Yes, time is short. Go to Full Review Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) 99% 78%

Eric Hynes Film Comment Magazine Sep 15, 2020 The deadening/enlivening line that Alberdi walks here is something like that between surface twee and bone-deep pathos...but it's elevated through the buy-in of its subjects. Go to Full Review The Mole Agent (2020) 95% 84%

Eric Hynes Film Comment Magazine Sep 15, 2020 I hazard to think that the film's mutual curiosity gives Some Kind of Heaven its vivifying spirit, that transforms what might have been familiarly charming and smirkily knowing into something more troubling, elusive, and enduring. Go to Full Review Some Kind of Heaven (2020) 93% 74%

Violet Lucca Film Comment Magazine Aug 4, 2020 Despite warranting "a trigger warning" for anyone who has been the victim of sexual harassment, The Girl too often feels too small. Go to Full Review The Girl (2012) 70% 41%

Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine Jul 7, 2020 What you're left with is not so much a story as a concept presented handsomely but very frustratingly. Go to Full Review The Other Lamb (2019) 74% 37%

Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine Jun 15, 2020 Metropolitan is a melancholic lament for not-quite-doomed youth-a self-styled new "lost generation" that isn't really lost, but might just never have a purpose. Go to Full Review Metropolitan (1990) 94% 84%

Jonathan Romney Film Comment Magazine May 29, 2020 A stark, controlled psychological thriller that unpicks its hero's troubled soul with forensic coolness. Go to Full Review A White, White Day (2019) 94% - -