Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi reaffirms his status as one of this century’s great cinematic heroes in perhaps his bravest film yet, a tale of revenge and moral choice that won him the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Ira Sachs’s mesmerizing latest film is based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused 1974 interview by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) narrates the events of the previous day in minute detail.

Against a Nixon-era backdrop of alienation and disillusionment, a taciturn family man (Josh O’Connor) makes the rash, largely inscrutable decision to orchestrate a heist at the local art museum in this restrained and often funny anti-thriller from Kelly Reichardt (Showing Up, NYFF60).

A retrospective honoring an overlooked filmmaker from the golden age of Japanese cinema whose work has grown even more beautiful and profound with time, featuring rare 35mm and 16mm prints

Join Film Comment magazine editors and a panel of special guests for a real-time countdown of the results of Film Comment’s year-end critics’ poll.

This phantasmagoric dream machine from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, NYFF56) is an elusive yet monumental love letter to a century of cinema, unfolding over five chapters that feature a dazzling array of styles and genres.

Winner of the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, Jim Jarmusch’s perceptive study in familial dynamics stars Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Tom Waits, and Charlotte Rampling.