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The Tax Collector Review: David Ayer’s Crime Drama is at War with Itself

In the world of masculine cinema, there may be no more divisive and inconsistent an auteur than David Ayer. Indeed, even writing the words ...

Psychomagic, A Healing Art Review: Alejandro Jodorowsky Pitches His Form of Trauma Therapy

Out Stealing Horses Review: Stellan Skarsgård Escapes His Past in Melancholic Drama

I Used to Go Here Review: Gillian Jacobs Searches for Validation in Thoughtful Dramedy

Waiting for the Barbarians Review: Tainted Colonial Drama Takes Moralizing Tone

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Film Festival Coverage

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Telluride Film Festival Reveals What Would’ve Screened at This Year’s Edition

Three New Films by Steve McQueen Will World Premiere at the 58th New York Film Festival

First Look at Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice, Set for Venice Premiere

TIFF 2020 Lineup Features Films by Mira Nair, Werner Herzog, Halle Berry, Regina King & More

Ben Affleck Heads to Chinatown to Direct The Big Goodbye

Ben Affleck is traveling back to the '70s for his next directorial feature, specifically looking at the making of a Hollywood classic. He's set to adapt The Bi...

One Perfect Shot is Becoming an HBO Max Series Produced by Ava DuVernay

The world of Film Twitter is expanding. One Perfect Shot, the popular Twitter account that doles out cinematic beauty one still at a time, is becoming a TV ser...

I Used To Go Here Director Kris Rey on Accessible Art, External Validation, and Remembering Lynn Shelton

With her fourth feature, writer/director Kris Rey teamed with lead actor Gillian Jacobs (“Love”) to create I Used To Go Here, a comedy focused on a newly publi...

Cosmo Jarvis on The Shadow of Violence, His Acting Process, and Title Changes

One of my favorite films from last year's Toronto International Film Festival, The Shadow of Violence (renamed from its UK release title Calm with Horses) has ...

First Trailer for Steve McQueen’s Five-Film Anthology Small Axe

When it comes to the world of filmmaking this year, Steve McQueen is returning 2020's most ambitious project. The filmmaker has crafted an anthology series tit...

New to Streaming: The Green Years, She Dies Tomorrow, I Used to Go Here & More

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles ...

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon to Begin Production in February 2021

Right before the coronavirus hit in America, Martin Scorsese and crew were planning to kick off their $200 million production of Killers of the Flower Moon in ...

Judas and the Black Messiah Trailer: Daniel Kaluuya & LaKeith Stanfield Reunite for Black Panther Drama

Reteaming after their mega-hit Get Out, Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield are leading the new drama Judas and the Black Messiah. Following the true story of...

Psychomagic, A Healing Art Review: Alejandro Jodorowsky Pitches His Form of Trauma Therapy

Part infomercial, part surrealist performance art, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s newest documentary Psychomagic, a Healing Art is a messy exploration of the filmmaker...

Jayro Bustamante on Infusing the History of Guatemala in La Llorona and Making Every Shot Count

With any luck, the name Jayro Bustamante will be well-known by cinephiles near and far very soon. At Sundance earlier this year, I said his third feature La Ll...

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