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The Best Cinematography of 2023

"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark...

The Best Documentaries of 2023

Going deep inside the human body, rethinking a Thelonious Monk interview, solitary island life, capturing one of the finest restaurants in the world, exploring...

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2023

Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices. It's why we venture to festi...

40 Films to See This Fall

With the summer movie season now quietly winding down, the fall movie season is upon us and while we expect a handful of release dates to change as writers and...

The Best Films of 2023 (So Far)

As we approach 2023’s halfway point it’s time to take a temperature of the finest cinema thus far: we’ve rounded up our favorites from the first six months of ...

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