On Film

One of France’s biggest stars took the world by storm before her reputation took a turn.

As we come to the end of 2025, we’re looking back at some of the essays and interviews we’ve shared with you over the past year.

Celebrate the holiday season with this special treat from our production team.

Head into the holidays with roundtables to watch, articles to read, and podcasts to listen to.

Kleber Mendonça Filho programs a series of films that have informed his slow-burning thriller.

The critic and curator talks about working on a program of films by trailblazing Black women directors, which opened at London’s BFI Southbank this year and is now playing on the Criterion Channel.

This week: Kubrick conspiracies, Malickian movies, Spike Lee’s musical moments, and a talk with Rebecca Hall.

Checking in on lists of the best films, performances, scenes, scores, restorations, and more.

At year’s end, we’re reading about the partnership and breakup of Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann—and much more.

An amiable actor, Reiner launched his directorial career with a seven-film winning streak.

Amid the disorientation of the COVID-19 era, this rousing film cut through with a life-affirming reminder that community and connection are still possible.

Spike Lee captures the democratic spirit and the galvanizing, near-spiritual feeling of togetherness at the heart of David Byrne’s acclaimed stage production.

Paul Reubens’s iconic character comes to cinematic life in this collaboration with director Tim Burton, who creates an on-screen world that evokes the unbridled joy and overwhelming terror of childhood.

This week: Bi Gan, Radu Jude, a new Film Quarterly, and of course, more year-end lists and polls.

Charli XCX stars in three of them, and another highlight is a restored documentary by the late William Greaves.

To celebrate the centennial of Battleship Potemkin, the Austrian Film Museum presents a near-complete retrospective.

In one of cinema’s greatest love stories, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger use the mercurial beauty of Scotland’s Inner Hebrides to evoke the unruly passions of an indelible heroine.

One Battle After Another carries on plowing through the season while Hollywood braces for “a seismic reorganization.”

In her Cannes-award-winning narrative feature debut, Mira Nair sees the lives of Indian street children with an unconditionally generous gaze, taking in their world in all its contradictions and complexity.

BAM presents These Encounters of Theirs on 35 mm, and Pedro Costa screens and discusses movies in Copenhagen.

New issues of Cineaste and Found Footage Magazine are among this week’s highlights.

PTA wins one accolade after another, and Peter Hujar’s Day leads the nominations for the Film Independent Spirit Awards.

The Academy Museum celebrates film presentation with a series of twenty-four new restorations.

Even as he carries on winning awards, Jafar Panahi is sentenced to another year in prison.