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Interview: Spike Lee on Highest 2 Lowest

1 week ago | filmcomment.com | Beatrice Loayza

This article appeared in the May 28, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here.
Interview: Jafar Panahi on It Was Just an Accident

1 week ago | filmcomment.com | Devika Girish

This article appeared in the May 23, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi, 2025)The most momentous occasion at this year’s Cannes was neither Tom Cruise’s red-carpet arrival nor Denzel Washington’s surprise honorary Palme d’Or—it was the return of Jafar Panahi to the Croisette after 22 years.
Cannes 2025: Out of Breath

2 weeks ago | filmcomment.com | Beatrice Loayza

This article appeared in the May 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here.
Cannes 2025: Stiff Upper Lips

2 weeks ago | filmcomment.com | Jonathan Romney

This article appeared in the May 16, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Enzo (Robin Campillo, 2025)Cannes has traditionally opened with various eminences publicly hymning the glories of cinema, occasionally sounding a note of social responsibility—but without distressing the gowns-and-glamour red-carpet crowd.
Dressed for Success

3 weeks ago | filmcomment.com | Vikram Murthi

This article appeared in the May 9, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Pavements (Alex Ross Perry, 2024)An early title card in Pavements, the new biopic-doc hybrid from director Alex Ross Perry, describes the indie-rock group Pavement as “The World’s Most Important & Influential Band”—the first cheeky joke in a film filled with them.
I Write Your Name

3 weeks ago | filmcomment.com | Devika Girish

This article appeared in the May 9, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Fogo, Island of Fire (Sarah Maldoror, 1978). Courtesy of the Association of Friends of Sarah Maldoror and Mário de Andrade. Sarah Maldoror refused to settle.
Show Biz Kids

1 month ago | filmcomment.com | Adam Nayman

This article appeared in the April 25, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here.
Film Comment Recommends: An Evening with Chikako Yamashiro

2 months ago | filmcomment.com | Devika Girish

This article appeared in the March 28, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. I Like Okinawa Sweet (Chikako Yamashiro, 2004). Courtesy the artist and Yumiko Chiba Associates. There is something unsettlingly liminal about Chikako Yamashiro’s work. The Okinawan artist’s videos take place, for the most part, on thresholds of one kind or another: graveyards, fences, shores, national borders.
God Help Us

2 months ago | filmcomment.com | Vadim Rizov

This article appeared in the March 28, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Jesus Revolution (Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle, 2023)In the mid-aughts, enabled by my then-editor, A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club, I proactively requested review assignments for anti-evolution tracts, the God’s Not Dead franchise, and adjacent mental garbage.
Bugged Out

2 months ago | filmcomment.com | Caitlin Doherty

This article appeared in the March 21, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho, 2025)It is not hard to imagine a terrible future. Ours is an age of cynical catastrophism.