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Tribeca Review: ‘Duck Butter’ is a Subversive-Enough Post-Mumblecore Comedy

The Duplass Brothers Productions has become the Blumhouse of character-driven indies, an established label that upcoming filmmakers gravitate towards to work wi...

New International Trailer for Lee Chang-dong’s Cannes-Bound Drama ‘Burning’

With the Cannes Film Festival line-up now completely locked down, including all sidebars, it's only a few weeks to go until things kick off, and perhaps our...

Review: ‘The Devil and Father Amorth’ Finds William Friedkin Haphazardly Returning to Exorcism

Director William Friedkin had never seen an actual exorcism when he made the canonical possession film The Exorcist. No one seems to think the material suffered...

First Trailer for ‘Blindspotting’ Finds Daveed Diggs Trying to Survive in Oakland

Going into Sundance Film Festival this year, we knew there was bound to be a handful of movies depicting police brutality and the state of race relations in...

New to Streaming: ‘Happy End,’ ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower,’ ‘Hostiles,’ ‘The Nothing Factory,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of MUBI, Amazon, iTunes, and more....

NYC Weekend Watch: Jiri Trnka, Anne Wiazemsky, Tsui Hark & More

The best films screening in NYC this weekend....

‘Filmworker’ Trailer Profiles Stanley Kubrick’s Right-Hand Man Leon Vitali

A week before Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey gets a 50th anniversary theatrical release, featuring an unrestored 70mm print, a documentary that cap...

Kelly Macdonald Solves a ‘Puzzle’ in First Trailer for Sundance Hit

Proving that a crowdpleaser doesn’t need to pander to succeed, Puzzle was one of the better films I saw at Sundance this year. Featuring a great Kelly Macdo...

40 Films to See This Summer

We highlight the must-see films over the next four months, including many under-the-radar titles....

‘Sollers Point’ Trailer: ‘Putty Hill’ Director Matthew Porterfield Returns with Another Baltimore-Set Drama

With his small-scale, deeply felt, and wonderfully-realized dramas, Matthew Porterfield has carved out an impressive eye for a Baltimore we don't often see ...

News

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

First Look at Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms Follow-Up King’s Daughters Starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Trailers

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

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Reviews

Cannes Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales Is an Ambitious If Tedious Take on Kieślowski

Cannes Review: Gentle Monster Is a Masterfully Performed Drama In the Aftermath of Betrayal

Cannes Review: With Club Kid, Jordan Firstman Announces Himself as a Director to Watch

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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