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The Fight Review: Heroic Lawyers Battle Injustices Committed by the Trump Administration

Anyone who cares about injustices committed by the Trump administration towards immigrants, women, the LGBTQ community, and other at-risk g...

Summerland Review: Gemma Arterton Delivers Career-Best Work in Effective WWII Drama

Rebuilding Paradise Review: Ron Howard Takes a Worthwhile Yet Superficial Look at a Recent Disaster

Amulet Review: Romola Garai’s Horror Debut Tears Down the Facade of Genre Conventions

Impetigore Review: Joko Anwar’s Folk Horror Packs an Effective Wallop

Interviews

The 20 Best Films of 2020 (So Far)

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Features

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Film Festival Coverage

Sundance, Berlinale, Cannes, Venice, TIFF, NYFF, and beyond. See more here.

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

Intermission Ep. 9 – Certain Women (with Orla Smith)

Welcome back to Intermission, a spin-off podcast from The Film Stage Show. In a time when arthouse theaters are hurting more than ever and there are a plethora...

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

Well, that was fast. Pedro Almodóvar just finished shooting his English-language debut, a short film adapting Jean Cocteau’s one-act play The Human Voice and s...

Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on Preparing to Shoot Killers of the Flower Moon During the Pandemic

During the pandemic, we've seen some projects resume production with strict safety protocols (including secret shoots), but when it comes to some films where d...

First Look at Wong Kar-wai’s Decades-Spanning Drama Blossoms

As promised, Wong Kar-wai has now embarked on his long-awaited project Blossoms, which was initially delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak. With the producti...

Tomas Alfredson Returns with First Trailer for Heist Comedy Se upp för Jönssonligan

After a great deal of acclaim with Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, about everything that could go wrong did indeed go wrong with Tomas Alfr...

New to Streaming: A Girl Missing, Atom Egoyan, Black Is King & 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 ...

Amy Adams Will Have Canine Fantasies in Nightbitch

Like most people, Amy Adams' year turned out different than expected. This past May, her latest film, Joe Wright's thriller The Woman in the Window, was set to...

Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer to Lead Michael Pearce’s Sci-Fi Thriller Invasion

While we thought we'd be seeing one of our TIFF favorites, Sound of Metal, get a release this August, it looks like Amazon has decided to hold out for an award...

Kôji Fukada on A Girl Missing, Repeat Viewings, and Betraying the Audience for Their Benefit

Nothing is as it seems in A Girl Missing, the latest feature from writer and director Kôji Fukada. Mariko Tsutsui stars as Ichiko, a visiting nurse who becomes...

Exclusive Trailer for The Green Years Restores a Lost Masterwork

A figure whose deserved place in the European canon never came, Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Rocha is getting a second look. This August, Grasshopper Film will m...