Jason Ryle, Mark Mushiva, and Lisa Smith discuss building cinematic networks that nourish connections across borders

Critics Justin Chang, Tim Grierson, and Jessica Kiang close out the festival, discussing _The Dreamed Adventure_ , _The Birthday Party_ , _Coward_ , and more

Thomas Flew and Neta Alexander recap late-festival premieres _The Black Ball_ , _Minotaur_ , _The Man I Love_ , and more

Dennis Lim, Kong Rithdee, and Antoine Thirion join to unpack this year’s festival

Isabel Stevens and Neta Alexander share their responses to Pedro Almodóvar’s _Bitter Christmas_ , Cristian Mungiu’s _Fjord_ , and more

Jordan Cronk, Adam Piron, and Ruun Nuur dive into mid-festival highlights _9 Temples to Heaven_ , _Paper Tiger_ , _The Unknown_ , and more

Critics Öykü Sofuoğlu and Inney Prakash debate their reactions to _Clarissa_ , _Sheep in the Box_ , and _Hope_

Robert Daniels and Inney Prakash debate new films from Radu Jude, Marie Kreutzer, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Critics Katie McCabe and Alison Willmore join to discuss _Fatherland_ , _Nagi Notes_ , _Parallel Histories_ , and more

Jonathan Romney and Beatrice Loayza kick off our Cannes 2026 coverage with reactions to _Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma_ , _Butterfly Jam_ , and more

The filmmaker talks fashion, feminism, and revolution

Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in reverse, dazzling us with his grounded, earthbound presence

Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in reverse, dazzling us with his grounded, earthbound presence

In character: the recipient of the 51st Chaplin Award discusses key roles, his approach to his craft, and the vision of the world he brings to every work

In character: the recipient of the 51st Chaplin Award discusses key roles, his approach to his craft, and the vision of the world he brings to every work

Screentime: Radu Jude‘s _Kontinental ‘25_ adapts its neorealist influences to our media-addled, morally bankrupt times

Unconditional loves: the French director discusses her latest, a surreal and moving coming-of-age story that reimagines the AIDS crisis

Kiss kiss: the critic joins to discuss her new collection of film writing, her formative experiences with movies and criticism, and more

Extra time: in Alexandre Koberidze’s _Dry Leaf_ , plot becomes secondary to movement, encounter, and digression

Living history: critic J. Hoberman joins to discuss the late British director’s utterly unique and invigoratingly political cinema

Beyond the frame: films by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ross McElwee, and Bani Khoshnoudi open lines of flight into the shared social and historical world to which they—and we—belong

Showtime: the LARB Radio Hour joins to debate the relative merits and shortcomings of this year’s nominees—from _Sinners_ to _The Secret Agent_ to _F1_

Gone fishing: the documentarian talks about his first feature in over a decade, an emotionally devastating and intricately layered letter to his son

Lines drawn: How political must a festival be for it to be considered properly political?

Family portrait: the director talks about his elliptical, atmospheric debut feature set in 1993 Nigeria

Critical cinema: the experimental film scholar talks about programming a series with his students, the films he can’t avoid showing first-year undergrads, and what it truly means to “comprehend” cinema

Future picture: festival highlights like _The Misconceived_ , _Tycoon_ , and _Chronovisor_ suggested a new kind of visual storytelling defined by a fluid mix of mediums and methodologies

Window dressing: maybe, because it’s 2026, and we are all so very tired, we are getting the _Wuthering Heights_ we deserve—a limp one

Reading list: the critic and curator joins to discuss his new book, a survey of significant films made by Black filmmakers or centering Black life

Portrait galleries: festival highlights like _Once Upon a Time in Harlem_ , _I Want Your Sex_ , and _If I Go Will They Miss Me_ offered a balm for independent art

Final call: many of the best films at the fest’s last edition in Park City affirmed its late founder Robert Redford’s belief in “the unexpected perspective”

Take a load off: Bilge Ebiri, Tim Grierson, and Madeline Whittle close out the fest, discussing <em>The Weight</em>, <em>When a Witness Recants</em>, <em>Chasing Summer</em>, and more

Sentimental moods: critics Robert Daniels, Will Tavlin, Natalia Winkelman join to discuss <em>Once Upon a Time in Harlem</em>, <em>Closure</em>, <em>Union County</em>, and <em>zi</em>

Readymades: Tim Grierson, Robert Daniels, and Monica Castillo join to discuss <em>The Gallerist</em>, <em>I Want Your Sex</em>, and <em>The Invite</em>

(In)visible boards: a history of the skate film

Giddy up: Maddie Whittle, Robert Daniels, and Will Tavlin join to discuss early fest premieres _Buddy_ , _The Moment_ , and _Josephine_

Mix it up: Madeline Whittle and Will Tavlin join to discuss _The History of Concrete_ , _Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]_ , and _Nuisance Bear_

Giddy up: Maddie Whittle, Robert Daniels, and Will Tavlin join to discuss early fest premieres <em>Buddy</em>, <em>The Moment</em>, and <em>Josephine</em>

Family rooms: the Icelandic auteur discusses his latest intimate epic, which follows a separated couple co-parenting their children while navigating life beyond marriage

Family relations: the legendary American filmmaker talks about his latest, a funny, sad, and haunting portrait of parents and children

Serve and return: critics Mark Asch and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss _Marty Supreme_ , _Avatar: Fire and Ash_ , and _Ella McCay_

Checks and balances: creaky and cringe as it is, James L Brooks's _Ella McCay_ is distinguished by the familiar warmth and polished witticisms of one of our most experienced entertainers

Out on a limb: Kleber Mendonça Filho has ingeniously programmed a mixture of horror, science fiction, paranoid thriller, crime procedural, and personal documentary that inform his latest, _The Secret Agent_

Past presents: highlights from a year of traversing the city’s ever-burgeoning repertory film landscape

In with the old: the best restorations, preservations, reprints, and remasters of 2025

The long and short of it: the strongest, strangest, and boldest shorter films of 2025

Faces: a confident unsentimentality unites the work of veteran actors Amy Madigan, David Strathairn, and Kathleen Chalfant

Expanded time: exceptional scenes from _Happyend_ , _The Mastermind_ , and _The Secret Agent_ stir the viewer out of the solipsism of the classic movie plot

Drumroll, please: critics Bilge Ebiri and Amy Taubin join for a real-time countdown of the films topping our year-end critics’ poll

It starts at home: a new DVD collection charts the artist Michael Smith’s enduring interest in the life and times of his hapless everyman alter-ego