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...
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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. ...
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 cla...
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...
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New to Streaming: ME, Coma, Hundreds of Beavers, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person & 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...
Maren Ade Sets First Film Since Toni Erdmann with Magic Word
With only three stellar features to her name in the last two-plus decades, The Forest for the Trees, Everyone Else, and Toni Erdmann, every new film from Maren...
The Friend Directors Scott McGehee & David Siegel on Finding the Perfect Dog, Bill Murray’s Notes, and Avoiding Cliches
Writer-director duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel have been working together for 30 years, since their debut thrilled Suture in 1994. Since then, they’ve only...
“Nobody Can See It In Georgia”: April Director Dea Kulumbegashvili on State Suppression and Luca Guadagnino’s Protection
With only two feature films, Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili has collected some of the highest accolades in the film world. Her astonishing debut ...
Jude Law Hunts Down White Supremacists in First Trailer for Justin Kurzel’s The Order
Working at quite a steady clip, Justin Kurzel followed up True History of the Kelly Gang and Nitram with The Order, which premiered this fall at Venice Film Fe...
BFI London Review: All of You Offers a Grown-Up Sci-Fi Romance
Many films have dared to ask if a man and a woman can ever just be friends, but very few have managed to answer in the affirmative. For most of its first half,...
The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters
Looking for what to see in theaters? Our feature, updated weekly, highlights our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to rest...
U.S. Trailer for Payal Kapadia’s Dazzling Cannes Winner All We Imagine as Light
One of the most acclaimed films of the year, Payal Kapadia's dazzling Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner All We Imagine as Light is now finally rolling ou...
BFI London Review: Blitz Is an Unabashedly Hopeful, Mainstream Work from Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen has long been upfront about his desire to make a musical; before Widows underwhelmed at the box office, it appeared likely that a passion project...
“Shut Up, Shut Up, Listen”: Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
For a certain kind of cinephile (e.g. me) more than a decade's been spent wondering about Julia Loktev. The brilliant director behind Day Night Day Night and T...