Reviews

Fear is not an option: Anand Patwardhan's essay film traces the pattern of political and sectarian violence across the modern history of India

Matteo Garrone's latest, in theaters April 12, illustrates the ruinous effects organized crime can have on even its most puppyish bit players

Concrete jungle: in Qiu Sheng’s tale of urban life, bureaucracy behaves like a cosmic force of nature

Speaking of freedom: Mike Leigh’s new film, opening April 5, is theatrical in the most classical and least pejorative sense

Return of the repressed: Jordan Peele's latest throws the audience into a house of mirrors

Time regained: Almodóvar’s latest is a heart-rending, meditative, and deeply confessional culmination of his prolonged immersion in the waters of autofiction

The thin blue line: S. Craig Zahler’s brutally violent cop film surfaces uncomfortable questions about racism, power, and complicity

Child of nature: an Icelandic fairy tale about a young woman, played by a 20-year-old Björk, conjures a world from the Brothers Grimm

Jia Zhangke's latest, in theaters March 15, is a thankful return to the director's strengths

For the 24th edition of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance held a special essay contest. Film Comment presents the winning essay here.