Forged in tandem with the New Queer Cinema of the early nineties, the nascent Killer Films weathered controversy for such bold, unabashedly gay films as Todd Haynes’s “Poison” (1991). Today, the production company’s titles—“Carol” (2015), “First Reformed” (2017), and “Past Lives” (2023) among the...

Even before it won the 2025 Palme d’Or, Jafar Panahi’s tragicomic revenge thriller “It Was Just an Accident” marked a momentous feat, as the Iranian master’s first film after the unexpected lifting of the 20-year filmmaking ban imposed on him by his government in 2010, when he was accused of maki...

The decade that broke punk and packaged grunge, the decade of New York Club Kids and Wu Wear and $5 Fugazi shows, the ’90s loom large in our age of hip-hop shout-outs to Kurt Cobain and the re-emergence of JNCOs. Was it the last gasp of American pop and countercultural vitality? A great rock ’n’ ...