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Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat is a grim, exciting history lesson that announces itself with percussive ...

Here at Film Comment, we live by Serge Daney’s motto: “Cinephilia is not only a particular relationship to cinema, it is a relationship to the world through cinema.” We love moving images because they ...

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I had not paid close attention to what Almodóvar was up to during what I call his “Hollywood” period: not that he “went Hollywood,” but the films that start with Women on the Verge of a Nervous ...

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In the early 1920s, masses of people sought comfort in spiritualism, consulting mediums to communicate with the dearly departed. God and the afterlife were still in play, and most families had ...

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A year after delivering, in Beast, one of the few recent portrayals deserving of the term “fearless,” Jessie Buckley ecstatically announces herself as neither an actress who can carry a tune nor a ...

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 ...