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The groundswell of grief that followed David Lynch’s death on January 15 caught me off guard, as I suspect it did many others, in its sheer reach and intensity. For a few days, it seemed that everyone ...

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“I just came from Deep River, Ontario, and now I’m in this dream place,” says Betty, the absurdly naive and optimistic young actress whose downward trajectory is the emotional and narrative center of ...

This article appeared in the January 24, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. A view from ...

This article appeared in the January 17, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Photo from the ...

Real-life stories of grisly crimes have always had a primal pull on our collective imagination. It’s now axiomatic that if there’s anything that sells better than sex, it’s true crime. In the last ...

Lynch’s career thus far reads like a film student’s fancy: an avant-garde feature made for $20,000; then a modestly budgeted ($5 million), no-star commercial movie, in black and white, that earned ...