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J. Hoberman Artforum Oct 15, 2026 However well received, the movie is hardly a blockbuster. In its anti-corporate, relative commercial purity Coyote vs. Acme serves as a corrective to a previous Warner Bros. product, namely the egregious Space Jam. Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

J. Hoberman Artforum Oct 9, 2024 Alexander Horwath’s erudite, entertaining three-hour meta-biopic. Go to Full Review Henry Fonda for President (2024) 86% - -

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 [A] brilliant, ingenious, hilarious film. Go to Full Review Smoking/No Smoking (1994) - - 100%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Trust me, this masterpiece from Iran is unlike anything you’ve seen yet. Go to Full Review Mosaferan (1992) - - - -

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Atypically movieish (i.e., Hitchcockian) for Ackerman but still adamant, unpredictable. Go to Full Review The Captive (2000) 79% 47%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Another marvel from Iran. A relentless, anguishing film. Go to Full Review The Circle (2000) 94% 79%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Witty, intelligent, and most convincing when it’s altogether over the top. Go to Full Review Hamlet (2000) 59% 46%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 The best-known Iranian director has made another incomparable film. Go to Full Review The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) 97% 84%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 A dazzling riff on Melville’s Billy Budd. You’ll never forget the final scene, when the amazing Denis Lavant starts to dance. Go to Full Review Beau travail (1999) 88% 77%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 A very ambitious film about looking and about guilt. Go to Full Review Humanité (2000) 69% 77%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Ullmann’s best work by far, with one of the greatest film performances ever, by Lena Endre. Go to Full Review Faithless (2000) 85% 85%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Is Yang as great as Hou Hsiao-hsien? Well, he’s different. See this. Go to Full Review Yi Yi (2000) 97% 91%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Worth seeing just for the performances. Mark Rylance may be the most gifted English-language actor of his generation. Go to Full Review Intimacy (2001) 66% 58%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Ravishing, weird, insolent. Go to Full Review Moloch (1999) 60% 63%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 A superb British filmmaker, Pawlikowski is equally gifted in fiction (like this film, about the plight in bleakest England of a young Russian émigré and her son) and in documentary. Go to Full Review Last Resort (2000) 94% 85%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Nobody pictures despair -- and silence -- like [Tsai Ming-liang], who uses the same actors, often the same apartment location, in film after film. Go to Full Review The River (1997) 75% 77%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 A thrilling subject, and Varda’s best film since Vagabond. Go to Full Review The Gleaners and I (2000) 93% 86%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 An important, unaffected film that takes you somewhere you don’t know... and makes you feel and think -- and care. Go to Full Review Journey to the Sun (1999) 80% 50%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 A melancholy youth ambles almost wordlessly through deep America -- rendered in dancy graphics -- receiving counsel from a parade of uproariously soliloquizing, exquisitely goofy pundits. Go to Full Review Waking Life (2001) 81% 87%

Susan Sontag Artforum May 2, 2024 Not Haneke’s best film, but Isabelle Huppert is stupendous. Go to Full Review The Piano Teacher (2001) 75% 81%