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NYFF Review: Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I – The Last Air in Moscow Reveals the Real World Horrors of Anti-War Russian Journalists

“The world you’re about to see no longer exists. None of us knew what was about to happen.” Writer-director Julia Loktev––whose 13...

NYFF Review: Apocalypse in the Tropics is an Exposé of Brazil’s Politically Active Religious Right

Five years, the closest presidential election in Brazilian history, and one insurrection after her last examination of Brazil’s tumultuous ...

BFI London Review: The Brothers Quay Find Stunning Textures In Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously...

NYFF Review: The Damned Flirts With Documentary and Reenactment in a Frigid Civil War Sojourn

Robert Minervini’s The Damned begins with two wolves tearing into a elk carcass, ripping off its fur and chewing its intestines. ...

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NYFF Review: Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I – The Last Air in Moscow Reveals the Real World Horrors of Anti-War Russian Journalists

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NYFF Review: Apocalypse in the Tropics is an Exposé of Brazil’s Politically Active Religious Right

The Best 2024 Fall Film Festival Premieres

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Trailer: Aardman Animations Returns This Winter

While Aardman creations Wallace and Gromit have seen their universe expanded with Shaun the Sheep films and even videogames, they haven't been prominent in a p...

NYFF Review: Apocalypse in the Tropics is an Exposé of Brazil’s Politically Active Religious Right

Five years, the closest presidential election in Brazilian history, and one insurrection after her last examination of Brazil’s tumultuous socio-political sphe...

The Criterion Collection’s January Lineup Includes The Mother and the Whore, Akira Kurosawa, and Anthony Mann on 4K

It's October, which means Criterion's already thinking about 2025. Their new year auspiciously starts with a 4K UHD release of Jean Eustache's magnum opus The ...

The Best 2024 Fall Film Festival Premieres

While there's a few more fall film festivals popping up in the next month, the major ones are behind us, which means we have a strong sense of the films to hav...

BFI London Review: The Brothers Quay Find Stunning Textures In Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously controlled; balleti...

First Trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Bird Starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski

Returning to Cannes Film Festival with her first narrative feature in eight years, Andrea Arnold's coming-of-age fable bird brought together Barry Keoghan, Fra...

NYFF Review: The Damned Flirts With Documentary and Reenactment in a Frigid Civil War Sojourn

Robert Minervini’s The Damned begins with two wolves tearing into a elk carcass, ripping off its fur and chewing its intestines. This isn’t a nature ...

Hamburg Review: Love Conjures a Truthful, Soothing Nordic Take on Romance

It takes confidence to name your film––simply and so very unspecifically––Love. Michael Haneke could get away with it for giving us the classic that is Amour. ...

NYFF Review: TWST / Things We Said Today Captures Beatlemania in Unexpected Ways

Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today exists in the world of Beatlemania. It uses archival footage from the lead-up to the Beatles conc...

BFI London Review: Eat the Night Mixes Compelling Teenage Malaise With Conventional Crime Drama

Jane Schoenbrun didn’t invent movies exploring teenage malaise and identity through the lens of pop culture, but in the opening moments of Caroline Poggi and J...

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