Our Fall 2026 issue is now live, with a cover story by Melissa Anderson (@MelissEAnderson) on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden”!
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"If the dark side of the American dream hardly needs to be excavated again . . .Gray presents something very different from a noir vision of a world where no one can be trusted."

Imogen Sara Smith on James Gray's "Paper Tiger"

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Film Comment Live! is back with a screening of "Gabriel Over the White House" and a post-film discussion with J. Hoberman about his book "Across the Movi-verse: Writing on Film, 2011-2021" moderated by FC editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute.

🎟️: filmlinc.org/hoberman

🚨 Join us for a special edition of @FilmComment Live on Tuesday, December 8 as we host writer and FC Contributing Editor J. Hoberman and celebrate the publication of his latest book, Across the Movi-verse: Writing on Film, 2011-2021.

🎟️: filmlinc.org/hoberman

The evening screening of Gregory La Cava’s GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (1933) on 35mm 🎞️ and Dave Fleischer’s short film BETTY BOOP FOR PRESIDENT (1932) and will be followed by a discussion with Hoberman and subsequent book signing (copies will be available to purchase on site).

"The soap opera–ish human interludes, though, are mostly dire—less affecting than the similar scenes in "'Minus One'"

Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) reviews Takashi Yamazaki’s "Godzilla Minus Zero"

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"The film's resonances don't stop with these two messages but extend into a realm of their own, which might be called quasi-mystical, or romantic, or magical-religious-existential."

Richard Combs on Joseph Losey's "The Boy with Green Hair" in Film Comment Mar-Apr 2004

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“Suffice it to say that Yamazaki’s boldest and most outlandish move is to suggest that, for better or worse, there’s a little Godzilla in all of us.”

Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) reviews Takashi Yamazaki’s "Godzilla Minus Zero"

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"Writer Peter Gamble fills the script with thumbnail exposition and lame hindsight, and director Peter Farrelly cuts to a reaction shot to indicate a laugh at every bit of physical comedy."

Read @MarkAschParody's review of "I Play Rocky"

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Proud of my cameo in this review
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“Suffice it to say that Yamazaki’s boldest and most outlandish move is to suggest that, for better or worse, there’s a little Godzilla in all of us.”

Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) reviews Takashi Yamazaki’s "Godzilla Minus Zero"

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Damn it's nuts that there could be this much good stuff in a magazine
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Alex Cox's "Sid and Nancy" is 40 and we're looking back at the Oct 1986 issue, which featured an interview with Cox, + David Lynch, Spike Lee, David Byrne, Doris Dorrie, and an obit for Vincent Minnelli:

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Lee Chang-dong's "Possible Love" is now on Netflix.

Phoebe Chen (@arsepoetica) examines how his latest film deepens his career-spanning inquiry into how the forces of habit, desire, and precarity shift our perception of reality.

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"I believe that this is a question that we must all ask ourselves as creators of narratives: what are our attitudes and ethics when we deal with and portray other people’s lives?"

Read Devika Girish (@devikagirgayi)'s conversation with Lee Chang-dong

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