This article is part of Film Comment’s Best of 2025 coverage. Read all the lists here. Greaser’s Palace (Robert Downey Sr., 1972). Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives. There were more new 4K ...

The dozen or so theaters that regularly offer repertory programming in New York afford a vantage on a vast moviegoing landscape that can be traversed nonstop. Here everything old is new again—what ...

Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He frequently writes for the Criterion Collection, and hosts and ...

Two teenage boys pushing a giant subwoofer down a desolate, nocturnal Tokyo street. A heist in an autumnal New England town comically distended by a station wagon whose cargo hold can only be accessed ...

The Girl on the Bridge The blindingly blonde fifties no-good-girl Beverly Michaels may have started young (she was a child model at age 9), but to watch her in her greatest films—post-noir low-rent ...

First glimpsed pitching a Midwestern drive-in owner on a multi-mixer (arguing that his demand for shakes would be higher if he could supply more), Kroc (Michael Keaton) drives cross-country to San ...