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Jan 9, 2023 — We gather some of the best recent writing on the National Society of Film Critics’s choices for the best films of 2022.

Jan 6, 2023 — The interdisciplinary Canadian artist was best-known in the States for such landmark films as Wavelength (1967) and La région centrale (1971).

Dec 23, 2022 — A roundup of holiday reading featuring Ingmar Bergman, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Damien Chazelle, Ernst Lubitsch, and Carolee Schneemann.

Dec 19, 2022 — The festival announces the lineup for its first in-person edition since 2020.

Dec 13, 2022 — A departure from the tales of sex and violence that defined Black cinema in the early 1970s, Michael Schultz’s beloved coming-of-age film celebrates the emotional bonds among a group of young Black men.

Dec 13, 2022 — MoMA presents newly restored and preserved work by Ozu, Lubitsch. René Clair, Paul Leni, and more.

Dec 12, 2022 — Critics, the European Film Academy, and the International Documentary Association spent the weekend listing and awarding.

Dec 6, 2022 — Known for their austerity and shocking moments of violence, the Austrian director’s first three films cultivate a kind of humanism in their dogged refusal to coddle the viewer.

Dec 2, 2022 — We’re sorting through the Sight and Sound poll and reading about Paweł Łoziński, the Sankofa Collective, and the first films ever made.

Dec 1, 2022 — During the production of our release of Amores perros in 2020, the film’s writer-director, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, gave us a remarkable window into his creative process, showing us some of the dozens of note cards he’d used in planning scenes...