David Hudson

Along with conversations with Jem Cohen and Johnnie To, the week brings fresh angles on the year that was.

One of history’s darkest chapters becomes a deeply personal experience in this adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel.

The bulk of this year’s selections comes from a three-decade stretch from the early 1970s to the late ’90s.

Sundance, Rotterdam, and Berlin roll out more lineups for what promises to be a season of uncertainty.

News, reviews, and recommendations featuring Paul Schrader, Cher, Terrence Malick, and more.

The week’s offered fine writing on Elaine May, Robert Siodmak and Ella Raines, and Christopher Nolan’s turning-point movie.

The festival will kick off the new year with political quandaries and plenty of great music.

Sean Baker’s eighth feature has been picking up awards and nominations and landing on several best-of-2024 lists.

The Locarno Film Festival is making a new restoration of Alberto Cavalcanti’s A Real Woman freely available worldwide.

The festival is making more than seventy films and artworks freely accessible worldwide through December 30.

One of the year’s most divisive films has swept up five European Film Awards and leads the nominations for the Golden Globes.

Richard Linklater and James Benning revisit Godard’s Breathless and Wim Wenders looks back on Paris, Texas.

Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow scores six Spirit Awards nominations and is the cover story in the new Film Quarterly.

For the New York Film Critics Circle, Brady Corbet’s third feature is the best film of the year, but not everyone agrees.

Absent from so many critics’ best-of-2024 lists, A Different Man wins Best Feature.

Metrograph presents new restorations of Lino Brocka’s Bona (1980) and Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara’s Once a Moth (1976).

The week offers evasive icons, an archive to rummage through, and a great but overlooked critic.

An animated menagerie teams up to survive a postapocalyptic flood in this wordless adventure.

From Wednesday through Sunday, the Cinematheque française will present Restaurations et raretés, Best of 2024.

Powell and Pressburger, Cassavetes and Rowlands, Robert Frank, Catherine Breillat, John Waters, Babette Mangolte, Sergei Loznitsa . . .

Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s film leads the nominations for the IDA Documentary Awards and the Cinema Eye Honors.

A pop star, psychics, and a punk-turned-priest are focus of this weekend’s series at the Museum of the Moving Image.

A Traveller’s Needs opens Friday, By the Stream early next year, and there’s a retrospective on in London through December 8.

Catherine Breillat’s debut feature and series programmed by Jenni Olson and Lizzie Borden are among this week’s highlights.