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

Dec 7, 2022 — The Sight and Sound poll calls for more deliberation and the best-of-2022 lists keep coming.

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 5, 2022 — For all the weekend’s best-of-2022 lists and awards, the Sight and Sound poll remains topic #1.

Nov 30, 2022 — Three Keaton shorts will open A Day of Silents at the Castro before a series runs through December 21 in Berkeley.

Nov 29, 2022 — Everything Everywhere All at Once scores Best Feature and the Outstanding Supporting Performance award for Ke Huy Quan.

Nov 22, 2022 — Spike Lee’s transcendent portrait of an American hero is an urgent call for the nation to live up to everything it claims to be.

Nov 18, 2022 — Nikyatu Jusu, Douglas Sirk, Mike De Leon, Donald Sutherland, and Sam Raimi are on our minds this week.

Nov 16, 2022 — After glimpsing his great-great-grandfather on-screen, a writer searches for the history of a landmark silent film.

Nov 15, 2022 — A box-office success that buoyed Hong Kong’s beleaguered movie industry in the early 2000s, this suite of crime films combines narrative intricacy and moral complexity with an abundance of megastar charisma.