This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. As usual, a large number of the year’s best films won’t appear on many critics’ year-end roundups simply by virtue of their brevity—and, in most cases, their ... at Filmcomment.com

This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2024 coverage. Read all the lists here. At a recent panel at Anthology Film Archives about new scans and restorations of the films of Sergei Parajanov, preservationist Daniel Bird spoke insightfully about ... at Filmcomment.com

I was knocked out by Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, a swooningly gorgeous film whose bloody heart and loose piriformis muscle is Daniel Craig’s performance as Bill Lee—a character who is as like and unlike William S. Burroughs as was the Bill Lee of the ... at Filmcomment.com

The results are now in for our 2024 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 2024 in the United States, with original appreciations from our ... at Filmcomment.com

Our Best Undistributed Films list, voted on by Film Comment contributors worldwide, recognizes the new films that were viewed—at festivals, or elsewhere—in 2024 but did not have U.S. distribution at press time. (Of course, that could change at any ... at Filmcomment.com

The results are in for our 2024 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 2024 category, covering features that were released either ... at Filmcomment.com

“Two boys carrying a big subwoofer through a megalopolis.” For Japanese filmmaker Neo Sora, that was the foundational image for his new feature, Happyend, a standout at this year’s New York Film Festival. The boys in question, Yuta (Hayato Kurihara ... at Filmcomment.com

One imagines James Baldwin would have had none of that. In his most sustained commentary on cinema, the 1976 book-length essay The Devil Finds Work, he gives voice to the suspicion and anger that many movie lovers feel toward an art form that not only ... at Filmcomment.com

The backers might have been swayed by the appeal of using a local filmmaker. Though born and raised in the Bronx, Romero had moved to Pittsburgh to attend Carnegie Mellon University and liked it enough to stay. He founded his first production company, The ... at Filmcomment.com

The Film Comment Podcast: Julianne Moore on The Room Next Door. Artificial heart: the great American actress discusses her role in the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, which co-stars Tilda Swinton as a dying woman who makes a daring request of an old friend, played brilliantly by Moore at Filmcomment.com

The results are now in for our 2024 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 2024 in the United States, with original appreciations from our critics, as well as links to features, reviews, and interviews about these films and directors from throughout the year. at Filmcomment.com

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The top 20 films of 2024 were unveiled with film critics Molly Haskell and Michael Koresky joining Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute to count down the results of the year-end critics’ poll. Filmmakers Kapadia, Jude, Bonello, and the co-directors of No Other Land sent in video statements expressing their delight at their films’ rankings, which were played for the audience. at Filmlinc.org

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Film Comment ’s annual end-of-year survey was revealed at a special live talk this week, with David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, and Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun taking the top spots among films released in 2022. Of the films that screened at festivals worldwide but have not announced stateside distribution, David Easteal’s The Plains, Bertrand Bonello’s ... at Filmlinc.org

Film Comment editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute were joined by NYFCC members Bilge Ebiri and Lovia Gyarkye for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from the NYFF62 lineup. In front of a lively audience, the panel discussed and debated RaMell Ross’s NICKEL BOYS, Brady Corbet’s THE BRUTALIST, Mike Leigh’s HARD ... at Instagram.com