Film Comment

IN MY EARLIEST DAYS AT THE MAGAZINE, some of the greatest lessons I learned came during the editorial process for essays by Kent Jones. When Kent wrote something for an issue, it was an event, an opportunity to discover films and filmmakers through e

IT’S A REMARKABLE, CHILLING TRUE STORY ABOUT THE LAWYER, Rob Bilott, who disclosed the practices of DuPont, particularly around Teflon. He comes from a different perspective—a defense attorney for the industry—and it becomes a decades-long and grueli

THE MOST REVELATORY MOVIEGOING EXPERIENCE I HAD last year was seeing Vetri Maaran’s Vada Chennai in a parking-garage movie theater in North Bergen in New Jersey. It is an intricately plotted, stabbingly violent gangster saga that is so richly detaile

A free service focused on folklife films IN THE CONTEXT OF AN INCREASINGLY CABLE TV–like streaming market, Folkstreams remains a website apart, an oddball gold mine of music documentaries, ethnographic films, and educational movies with little-to-no

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement By Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey, Penguin Random House, $28 A KNOCKOUT OF A READ, JODI KANTOR AND MEGAN TWOHEY’S She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Igni

Inventory Press, $19.95 The annotated script of Get Out—for which Jordan Peele won the first Oscar awarded to an African American for an original screenplay—opens with Tananarive Due’s incisive essay “Get Out and the Black Horror Aesthetic.” Due, a b