film commentary

Preparing to embark on two new projects, a filmmaker looks to a new movie by a great French director for ideas he can steal for his own work.

When ISIS is all over the news and it's been a bad year for dinosaur movies and you need a sentimental reminder to call your mother...

A film that was a critical and financial disappointment two decades ago now appears a startlingly prescient commentary on the U.S and Hollywood.

A recent convert to the fiction of Patricia Highsmith is transported back to his past by a spot-on adaptation of her once-scandalous second novel.

Sometimes you laugh at the documentary about the aging rocker attempting a comeback. And sometimes you also relate. A lot.

Two decades after its theatrical release, a filmmaker looks back on a movie that changed how he saw cinema, and himself.

A documentary on the revolutionary African director prompts a longtime champion to look back on his work.

When and why did we start treating children like adults? And when did men get so scared of women?

Moving to a bigger canvas for the first time, McCarthy has made a film that's a reminder of why we love movies.

After the death of its auteur, a mythic bad/good movie is getting a proper release. One of its early champions explains why it's so special.

The story of an iconic actor, a watch, a 24-hour car race, the film that ties them all together, and the documentary on its making.

No matter how you feel going in, watching a great movie helps you connect with it in a profound and transformative way.