Henry Fonda for President Review: The Dying Dream of a Better America
The Academy Awards likely aren’t that important in the grand scheme of film history, but legendary actor Henry Fonda winning his first comp...
The Encampments Review: An Inspiring, Essential Portrait of Collective Action
A group of students, primarily led by minority voices, launched encampments in protest of Columbia University’s financial ties to compa...
Tendaberry Review: A Soulful Brooklyn-Set City Symphony
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Tendaberry is now on VOD and arrives on MUB...
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Tendaberry Review: A Soulful Brooklyn-Set City Symphony
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Tendaberry is now on VOD and arrives on MUBI on April 25.
A ...
NYC Weekend Watch: Manoel de Oliveira
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
BAMMy ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective Mirror of Life begins, with numerous restor...
The B-Side Ep. 158 – Powell and Pressburger (with Katie Walsh)
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.
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New to Streaming: Queer, Tendaberry, Bring Them Down, A Complete Unknown & More
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...
The Woman in the Yard Review: Jaume Collet-Serra Makes a Scary, Intense Return to Horror
While horror films function as an important part of this writer’s interest in cinema, it’s been hard not to feel some growing personal contempt for the genre. ...
“Cinema, for Me, Is Like a Big Adventure”: Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour, Cigarettes, and Sunglasses
Miguel Gomes' Best Director victory at Cannes likely struck a small but passionate group of cinephiles as a greater win for the cause. It had been nearly 20 ye...
One Battle After Another Trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio is on the Run in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Action Epic
Despite a bit of a delay, Warner Bros. is at least displaying some confidence in Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated One Battle After Another, debuting i...
Watch Martin Scorsese and Willem Dafoe Discuss The Last Temptation of Christ in a New Conversation
Anthology's recent Willem Dafoe retrospective received a major boon when their Last Temptation of Christ screening included a Q&A between the actor and Mar...
April Trailer: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Mesmerizing Venice Winner Arrives, Of Course, in April
Following up her visually staggering debut Beginning, Dea Kulumbegashvili returned last year with her second feature April, which picked up the Special Jury Pr...
Callie Hernandez Plumbs a Secret Life In Trailer for Courtney Stephens’ Acclaimed Invention
Last year I was fortunate to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fiction...