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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 con...

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

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

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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

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...

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

This was the week when Kate's (Gillian Jacobs) dreams were supposed to come true. Her debut novel was releasing, her wedding was on the horizon, and a nationwi...

Viggo Mortensen Reteams with Jauja Director Lisandro Alonso for Eureka

Since his striking, transportive drama Jauja in 2014, we've been waiting for Lisandro Alonso's follow-up. News first arrived in 2018 as we learned of Eureka, a...

10 Films to See in August

We’re now entering the end of the summer movie season and it continues to be an unprecedented era in the world of film. Smaller-scale movies got a bigger spotl...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 399 – First Cow (with Alex Heeney)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Alex Heeney to discuss Kel...

First Trailer for Jay Sebring Documentary Explores a Life Cut Short

There was much curiosity on the part of audiences last summer when it came to every real-life person, event, and location portrayed in Quentin Tarantino's Once...