Birth/Rebirth Review: Effective Horror Refreshingly Stripped of Emotion
It was only last week I was reviewing a new take on the Dracula myth, The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Deeper into both the dog days of Augu...
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Locarno Review: On the Go is a Joyfully Messy Road Movie with Sex and Fertility on the Brain
The Indonesians have a concept called nongkrong. To nongkrong is to meet and talk, preferably in large groups, and about nothing in particu...
Locarno Review: David Krumholtz Rounds Off a Big Year in Deadbeat Comedy Lousy Carter
What a year it's been for David Krumholtz. In 2023, the actor has added a Tony-winning play (Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt) and a box-office ...
Locarno Review: Family Portrait is an Audacious Debut Excavating Subterranean Familial Tensions
Texas, late summer, a family in the dozen: with only a few simple building blocks, artist-filmmaker Lucy Kerr rearranges domesticity into e...
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Locarno Review: Family Portrait is an Audacious Debut Excavating Subterranean Familial Tensions
Texas, late summer, a family in the dozen: with only a few simple building blocks, artist-filmmaker Lucy Kerr rearranges domesticity into eeriness in her featu...
The Criterion Collection’s November Lineup: Malick, Scorsese, and Bogdanovich on 4K, Jackie Chan, and Claude Chabrol
Let's quickly skirt the sinking-stomach realization of how far into 2023 we're getting––at least this next crop of titles arrive as Barnes and Noble hold anoth...
Maestro Trailer: Bradley Cooper is Leonard Bernstein in Venice-Bound Biopic
Five years after his hit directorial debut A Star Is Born, few fall films are arriving with the illustrious pedigree of Bradley Cooper's sophomore feature Maes...
Michael Cera and Dustin Guy Defa on The Adults, Poker Cinema, and the Joy of Sesame Street
It’s February in Berlin and Michael Cera is dodging bullets. What's it like, one reporter asks, to be a new dad? “It's like a new obsession," the actor explain...
The Film Stage Show Ep. 517 – Afire (with Scout Tafoya)
Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Scout Tafoya to discuss ...
Gran Turismo Review: Fast Cars and Fatherly Love Make this PlayStation Production Better Than It Has Any Right to Be
Gran Turismo, based on the PlayStation racing simulation games and directed by District 9 helmer Neill Blomkamp, is many things: a sports movie, an underdog st...
Locarno Review: Baan is a Fitfully Lyrical, Often Overwrought Study of 21st-Century Restlessness
The people dotting Leonor Teles’ shorts are all caught in the midst of seismic transformations, drifters who watch their home turfs push them away and change a...
First Trailer for Michel Gondry’s The Book of Solutions Finds a Filmmaker in a Creative Rut
Returning with his first film in nearly a decade, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry debuted The Book of Solutions at Cannes Film...
TIFF 2023 Adds Films by Jean-Luc Godard, Radu Jude, Pedro Costa, Eduardo Williams, Phạm Thiên & More
In one of their festival announcements, Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled some of the most exciting international offerings of the year with Wa...
NYC Weekend Watch: Lucrecia Martel, Nocturama, Sofia Coppola & More
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy CinemaThe Headless Woman and Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise screen on Friday; prints of Pee-We...