Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things ...

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Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist ends in Venice, at the 1980 Biennale Architettura, where the film’s fictional protagonist, László Tóth (Adrien Brody), is being honored for his lifetime achievements in ...

The films I saw at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival offered an array of welcome surprises. Given the brutalities that have beset the world since the festival’s previous edition, Hard ...

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Call it Stranger in the Village. After being away for many years, Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) returns to the village where he grew up, in southwestern France, on the occasion of a funeral. A zigzag game of ...

The July/August 2018 issue of Film Comment featured a selection of letters written by Paul Schrader to his brother, Len, during the late 1960s and early ’70s. Schrader’s “Letters to Len” capture an ...

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Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is the latest in a string of recent films directed by women—Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021), Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes (2023), and Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding ...