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Paul Rudd Goes from Baseball to Espionage in First Trailer for ‘The Catcher Was a Spy’

Before he gets small later this summer, Paul Rudd is doing some good ol' fashioned drama with The Catcher Was a Spy. Premiering at Sundance earlier this yea...

Posterized May 2018: ‘First Reformed,’ ‘The Day After,’ ‘Tully,’ and More

This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats....

Montclair Review: ‘The Misogynists’ is ‘In The Company of Men’ for the MAGA Era

Largely set in a hotel room on election night 2016, Onur Tukel’s The Misogynists is a nasty piece of business. Perhaps the director's most no holds barred pictu...

Montclair Review: ‘When She Runs’ Subtly Captures Alienation and Obsession

A quiet and observant sports drama, When She Runs, like The Fits, is a film that lives and breathes process. Our lead Kristen (Kirstin Anderson, also credited a...

Montclair Review: ‘Far from the Tree’ is a Bold, Uneven Empathy Machine

Inspired by Andrew Solomon’s best-selling novel and perhaps a quote the begins Roger Ebert’s autobiography Life Itself (“…movies are like a machine that generat...

Andrea Riseborough Blurs Identities in First Trailer for ‘NANCY’

Bringing not one, not two, not three, but four films to Sundance Film Festival this year, Andrea Riseborough was clearly the star of the festival. Along wit...

15 Films to See in May

We count down the must-see films to kick off the summer movie season....

Review: ‘The Longest Game’ Uses Sport to Tell Full-Bodied Life Stories

When director Camille Thoman calls the octogenarians at the center of her documentary The Longest Game charming, she's describing their initial, surface appeal....

U.S. Trailer for John Woo’s ‘Manhunt’ Brings the Action; Sets Lupita Nyong’o-Led Remake of ‘The Killer’

Update: John Woo's next film will be a remake of his own actioner The Killer, this time led by none other than Lupita Nyong'o in the assassin role originate...

Tribeca Review: ‘Mapplethorpe’ Takes a Tame Look at a Complex Career

Rising to prominence in a changing cultural landscape, Robert Mapplethorpe may have been just been in the right place at the right time. At the cultural vanguar...

News

The Criterion Collection’s August Lineup Includes James Gray, Todd Haynes, and More

Jia Zhangke, Claire Denis, and Sam Raimi Set Next Features

Kenneth Lonergan Returns with Tomorrow Is a Drag; Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Matthew Broderick, and Vanessa Kirby Starring

Trailers

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Lead First Teaser for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

Reviews

Cannes Review: James Gray’s Paper Tiger Is a Masterfully Measured, Quintessentially Subtle New York Tale

Cannes Review: Na Hong-Jin’s Hope Is a High-Octane Creature Feature That Falls Flat

Cannes Review: Dominga Sotomayor’s La Perra Ditches Facile Metaphors for Allusive Mysteries

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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