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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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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

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...

Watch: Damien Chazelle Reimagines Classic Genres Vertically in New Short Film

Don't tell Christopher Nolan. As Damien Chazelle waits for film production to return to normal so he can shoot his classic Hollywood epic Babylon, starring Bra...

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...

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