On Film

SXSW and Slamdance unveil full lineups, and the Berlinale fills out its Forum, Panorama, Generation, and Classics programs.

There’s a Visconti retrospective on in Vienna, a restored Comencini in New York, and films by Antonioni, Olmi, and Bertolucci will screen at Harvard.

The festival lines up its Forum Special and celebrates forty years of the Teddy Award.

Let’s catch up with some of the most notable best-of-2025 listing and polling.

This week: Conversations with Lav Diaz, Mira Nair, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.

The director of some of the bleakest films ever made once claimed all they were all comedies—except one.

We can look forward to new films by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, David Fincher, Greta Gerwig, Lee Chang-dong, Ulrike Ottinger, and many, many more.

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.