Yeah right!” On the level of form, this interlude has a practical effect: it injects levity into an otherwise intense ...

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What passes for plot gradually gets even more minimal when the driver’s horse first refuses to pull the wagon, then refuses to eat. Eventually father and daughter also become immobilized, confirming ...

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1. Johnny Guitar Nicholas Ray, 1954 2. Mouchette Robert Bresson, 1967 3. Laura Otto Preminger, 1944 4. Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick, 1975 5. Muriel Alain ...

Streaming Pick Larry 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 ...

First glimpsed pitching a Midwestern drive-in owner on a multi-mixer (arguing that his demand for shakes would be higher if he could supply more), Kroc (Michael Keaton) drives cross-country to San ...

Checks and balances: creaky and cringe as it is, James L Brooks's Ella McCay is distinguished by the familiar warmth and polished witticisms of one of our most experienced entertainers ...

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 Agent ...

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 that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2025 in the ...

Of course, Grahame was by this time largely a figure of celluloid memory: she was the flirtatious goofus of Zinnemann’s Oklahoma!, but, more typically, she was the Ur-noir siren (of Lang’s The Big ...

By Violet Lucca in the November-December 2017 Issue T he footage of David Lynch blinking back tears during the standing ovation at the Cannes premiere of the first two episodes of Twin Peaks: The ...