Film, the measure of all things

Has the video essay become a victim of its own success? These digitally produced, critical (or at times, not-so-critical) reworkings of film and media continue to proliferate at a rate beyond what anyone can possibly keep up with. Their ubiquity marks them as a sure sign of film culture’s passage into the era of digital and social media. As an open-source method to express our media-based experiences to ourselves and others, the video essay can be seen as a powerful means by which a generation of digital natives makes sense of its contemporary condition of audiovisual over-saturation. At it...

David Davidson 1. Acres (Rebeccah Love) 2. Big Little Lies (Jean-Marc Vallée) 3. Nirvanna The Band The Show Season 1 and 2 (...

There are two types of “found” objects that appear in the films of Janie Geiser. The first include her many thrift store finds—scraps of wallpaper, rulers and other measuring instruments, anatomica…

En un texto enmarañado y hermoso del que no recuerdo ni el nombre ni el lugar de su publicación, Peter Wollen intenta caracterizar la pasión cinéfila como una especie de enfermedad, una modesta tara infantil por la que se detiene sin mayor éxito la inserción traumática en el mundo. El cinéfilo quiere entregarse al cine […]

A list of the 35 best movies to play Chicago this year.

The Reader’s film editor selects his favorite movies that premiered in Chicago this year.

Not every great movie is commercially successful -- like these bombs, which lost money at the box office but are more than worth your time.

Entertainment Geekly is a weekly column that examines pop culture through a geek lens and simultaneously examines contemporary geek culture…

Moonlight's Barry Jenkins has finally seen Call Me By Your Name, and the director behind the LGBTQ coming-of-age story of last…

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he stern, she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. Lots of atmosphere, very sentimental…

Once a decade Sight & Sound asks critics to select the Greatest Films of All Time. We’re proud that, thanks to its longevity and critical reach, this poll has come to be regarded as the most trusted guide there is to the canon of cinema greats, not to mention a barometer of changing critical tastes. Famously, Citizen Kane topped our poll every decade from 1962 to 2002…

Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey was released today with Josh and Benny Safdie’s Good Time, Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion, and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper taking the top spots among films released in 2017.

From epic blockbusters, to indie comedies or mind-melting foreign dramas - with the Movie Machine, we'll be charting the best movies of 2...

Pop reviews and in-depth analyses of current and classic films from around the world.

In my mother’s family scrapbook, there is a tiny box camera snapshot of a very young Robert staring at the Luftwaffe-smashed “mole” leading out to sea from the port of Boulogne – sixteen years after British troops evacuated under fire in May 1940 as their comrades stood on the beaches of neighbouring Dunkirk.

The blockbuster purports to be a historical portrayal, but in fact it’s a whitewash. And these decisions help corrode societal attitudes, writes Sunny Singh

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster is an innovative film, but not historically authentic

We pit the Dunkirk movie vs. the true story of the Dunkirk evacuation during WW2. Read our fact-checking and see Dunkirk rescue photos.

A skilled director of visceral, real-world horrors, Bigelow dramatizes a 1967 incident that left 3 young black men dead at the hands of the police. The result is unflinching and effective.

Testimony from the officers' trials backs up Kathryn Bigelow's interpretation