film commentary

Lou Pepe speaks out in ardent support of Michał Marczak's gorgeously cinematic doc, a film considered by some to not qualify as non-fiction.

With Russell's 1971 musical newly out on Blu-ray, Steve Lippman makes a case for the film being an underappreciated classic.

Sidewalk Stories' legendary writer-director-star Charles Lane takes stock of the reboot of one of his favorite recent TV shows.

Stephen Winter distracts himself from the horror of political goings on by indulging in the first film by a major new voice in American cinema.

Jim Hemphill on Maggie Greenwald's 1993 revisionist Western, a film that brilliantly and insightfully plays with the tropes of the genre.

Randy Russell on Kedi, the delightful new documentary about street cats in Istanbul which he has been watching on heavy rotation.

Jim Hemphill on how the History Channel's surprising new series – and especially Kimberly Peirce's episode – shows cinema how it's done.

Channeling Claudia Rankine, Talkhouse Film's poet laureate Terence Nance looks at the present moment through one of the finest films of 2016.

Allison Anders counts the ways in which she's head over heels about Anna Biller's sumptuous supernatural melodrama.

Writer-director Andrew Matthews on Netflix's smash hit series and a worrisome trait of that and a number of other binge-worthy shows.

Terence Nance on Mira Nair's Disney movie about a young Ugandan chess prodigy, a film that's as uplifting as it promises to be.

Stephen Winter offers up some unfiltered truth about the horribleness that was 2016, and makes suggestions on how 2017 can be a little less egregious.