Commentary may refer to:
- Play-by-play commentary, describing sporting events on TV or radio
- Colour commentary, supplementing play-by-play commentary with talk not directly about play
- Commentary or narration, the words in a documentary film
- Commentary (magazine), a U.S. public affairs journal, founded in 1945 and formerly published by the American Jewish Committee
- The audio commentary track for DVDs, an additional audio track that plays in real time with video and comments on the video
- Political commentary, criticism that is specific of or relevant to politics
- A literary commentary, or close reading
- Literary criticism, the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature
- A philological commentary, a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication
- Bible commentary, a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text
- List of biblical commentaries
- Jewish commentaries on the Bible
- In Theravāda Buddhism commentaries on the Pāli Canon are known as atthakatha
- Informed criticism
- Topics covered by a discussion group
- Misspelling of Commentry, a place in central France
- Commentaries is a work attributed to Taautus
- A number of works by or attributed to Julius Caesar, most notably:
- Commentarii de Bello Gallico, "Commentaries on the Gallic War"
- Commentarii de Bello Civili, "Commentaries on the Civil War"
- The Commentaries on the Laws of England, a 1769 treatise on law
- Commentary! The Musical, the musical commentary accompanying Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
- In-Theater Audio Commentary, viewing a film in a theater while listening to commentary on a portable audio player
Famous quotes containing the word commentary:
“Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)