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‘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 ...

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes-Bound ‘Shoplifters’ Gets Full International Trailer

As he preps for his newest film starring Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is returning to Cannes with another fea...

Review: ‘Itzhak’ Candidly Captures a Man and a Musician

Documentarian Alison Chernick has made a career of profiling artists from Jeff Koons and Matthew Barney in features to Roy Lichtenstein and Rick Rubin in shorts...

Review: ‘Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free’ is an Inspiring Story About a Self-Made Woman

There's a great line spoken by an aged Lou Andreas-Salomé (Nicole Heesters) to new friend and potential biographer Ernst Pfeiffer (Matthias Lier) upon his prais...

Review: ‘This is Our Land’ is an Engaging Contemporary Political Thriller

While its execution feels as sophisticated as a bumper sticker slogan, director Lucas Belvaux’s This is Our Land, based on Jérôme Leroy’s book Le Bloc, function...

50 Years Later, Douglas Trumbull Reflects on Stanley Kubrick’s Vision and the Technological Breakthroughs of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey

We talk to the visual effects maestro half-a-century after the release of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece....

‘Birds of Passage’ Trailer: ‘Embrace of the Serpent’ Director Ciro Guerra Returns

One of the most visually distinct, transportive cinematic journeys of the last few years was Embrace of the Serpent, which would make a fine pairing with Th...

News

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

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

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: All of a Sudden Is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Most Empathetic, Humanist Film to Date

Cannes Review: Clarissa Provides a Formally Adventurous Showcase For Sophie Okonedo

Cannes Review: The Meltdown Is an Elusive Chilean Chiller

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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