Paint work: Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind is fun and funny, but it also just might be her most chilling portrait of America to date| Film Comment
Reversing injustice: the filmmaker discusses her new documentary, which uses police body-cam footage to capture the events that culminated in the murder of a Black mother by her white neighbor| Film Comment
Refusing the waves: Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling revive the image of the self-drowned woman with a bracing literalism| Film Comment
Signed, sealed, delivered: critics Molly Haskell, J. Hoberman, and Beatrice Loayza join for a spirited wrap-up analysis of the highlights and lowlights from this year's lineup| Film Comment
State of grace: the Italian auteur discusses his latest, a portrait of the renowned early 20th-century stage actress| Film Comment
Boss less: Scott Cooper‘s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere can't find a sincere way of imagining the everyday process of making music| Film Comment
Unchained: Ramesh Sippy’s swashbuckling 1975 epic mashes together tropes from westerns, dacoit films, silent comedies, and musicals to create an entirely unique cult classic| Film Comment
Layers of time: the Italian nonfiction master joins to discuss his latest, which explores the city of Naples as an environment both cosmic and prosaic| Film Comment
Simultaneous dimensions: three films at this year’s NYFF made by or about Palestinians pry open apertures from which we must make sense of Gaza’s horizon as intimately tied to our own| Film Comment
Savage age: the Chinese director discusses his new film’s phantasmagoric odyssey through the history of cinema| Film Comment
Film in my head: the 87-year-old filmmaker discusses her resplendent 1968 debut feature, attending USC film school in the ’60s, and more| Film Comment
Pixel visions: Dry Leaf, Rose of Nevada, and Levers present us with surfaces so textured and tactile that they have the physicality of a terrain| Film Comment
Framed: Kelly Reichardt, Kent Jones, and Lucio Castro join from NYFF63 to discuss the temporality of cinema versus the other arts, the challenge of being a working artist, and more| Film Comment
Class canceled: are the binders empty in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt because the professors are full of shit, or is it just a continuity error?| Film Comment