Our greatest hits this year include food monsters, three-and-a-half-hours on the dance floor, special effects lost to time, legendary films never made, and more.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a brazen, hilarious, and prescient tale spun out of the pages of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland (1990).

Alyssa Lopez speaks to the Rail about her new book Reel Freedom and the emergence of Black film culture in early twentieth-century New York City.

This inaugural annual list features stories not so much about movies but rather about the act of watching a movie and the (often dark or dimly lit) spaces in which we enjoy them.

We at the Brooklyn Rail want to give you the worst FOMO of your lives and tell you what you won’t see, can’t see, or may never get more than one chance in your life to see (streaming subscriptions be damned). With advice from our contributors, we present you Volume III of the “Greatest Films You’ll Never See.”