On Film

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.

A remarkable breakthrough in Hong Kong action cinema, this rip-roaring spectacle represents the peak of Hung’s commitment to ensemble-oriented filmmaking.

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.

In this semiautobiographical meditation on the fickle nature of creative genius, Federico Fellini opens his arms wide to the enigmas of childhood, religion, art, sex, and love—mysteries with no solution.

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

In this brilliant adaptation, Joel and Ethan Coen find a kindred spirit in novelist Cormac McCarthy, whose abiding themes—including destiny, the American West, and the contest between our better natures and our survival instinct—mirror their own.

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.

Before she won acclaim as a pioneering director, the Hollywood icon made her name as a powerfully vivid actor who brought grit and toughness to films by such masters as Raoul Walsh, Nicholas Ray, and Michael Curtiz.

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.

In this tragicomic road movie about a Bible-selling con man and his precocious young charge, Peter Bogdanovich brings Depression-era America to vivid life without sentimentality or nostalgia.

Combining sci-fi magic and a distinctly human sense of intimacy, Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning film reimagines an oppressive era in American history through a tale of romantic fate.