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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 explorat...

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

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

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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

Desert One Trailer: Barbara Kopple Explores the Iran Hostage Crisis

In her latest film, Academy Award-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA and American Dream) turns her eye on the failed attempt to end the I...

Zola Teaser: A24 Reveals Janicza Bravo’s Sundance Hit is Coming Soon

In an alternate timeline, we imagine Janicza Bravo's wild Tampa-set adaptation of A’ziah “Zola” King's Twitter thread––aptly titled Zola––would have been the h...

Amy Seimetz on She Dies Tomorrow, Mortality, Double Features, and Filmmaking Advice

With the evocative title of She Dies Tomorrow, one might think they can predict where Amy Seimetz’s second feature is going, but the writer-director is keen to...

First Trailer for Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things Cracks Open a Dissolving Relationship

It's rare that one of our most-anticipated films of the year kicks off the fall movie season, but that will be the case this September when Charlie Kaufman's I...

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

Tragedy strikes forty years after moving to Sweden and the loss is so profound that Trond (Stellan Skarsgård) discovers it difficult to continue on as before. ...

Space Dogs Trailer Boldly Explores the Legacy of the First Canine in Outerspace

With the title of Space Dogs, I don't know what possibly else I would need to say to sell you on seeing this movie. However, there is much more to say as Elsa ...

John Wick Team to Remake South Korean Thriller The Man from Nowhere

Following the massive global success of Bong Joon Ho's Parasite, as one might expect, Hollywood is now looking at South Korea for ideas when it comes to their ...

Lilly Wachowski Reflects on the Trans Allegory at the Center of The Matrix

Released 21 years ago this year, The Matrix ignited the imaginations of millions of viewers, spawning sequels (including a fourth film, now delayed to April 20...

Posterized August 2020: She Dies Tomorrow, Tesla, La Llorona & More

Now that Tenet has officially been removed from August's slate so it can be released in international theaters while our country continues to botch its...