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‘The King’ Trailer Connects Elvis Presley with the Decline of America

The King, Eugene Jarecki’s newest documentary feature, first premiered one year ago, finding critical success at the Cannes Film Festival under the title Pr...

First Teaser for Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Too Old to Die Young’ Sets Miles Teller in a World of Crime

After months of anticipation – and after only being slightly relieved through teasing information from director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Twitter posts, as wel...

Robert Pattinson Searches for Mia Wasikowska in First Trailer for ‘Damsel’

The stunning vistas aren't the only signifiers of the western genre in Damsel, yet we quickly grasp that David and Nathan Zellner have crafted revisionist t...

Rediscover Jean Cocteau’s ‘Les Parents terribles’ in Exclusive Trailer for 70th-Anniversary Theatrical Restoration

Jean Cocteau's filmography could be considered relatively modest compared to some of his French brethren -- but with an output among cinema's most immense, ...

The Best Films of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

We wrap up Cannes 2018 with our favorite films of the festival....

New to Streaming: ‘Black Panther,’ ‘On the Beach at Night Alone,’ ‘The Party,’ and More

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

Cannes Review: ‘The Wild Pear Tree’ Marks Another Triumph for Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Last week we saw a film from Pawel Pawlikowski that crossed continents and spanned decades and lasted a mere 84 minutes. With the exception of a devastating cli...

Cannes Review: M83’s Yann Gonzalez Stages Delightfully Icky Horror with ‘Knife + Heart’

There is a movie within the movie Knife + Heart and it boasts the slightly euphemistic title of Homocidal (although I prefer the working title: Anal Fury). It i...

Cannes Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Donbass’ is Technically Impressive, Emotionally Bludgeoning

Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass forms a rough trilogy with two of his previous features, My Joy (2010) and A Gentle Creature (2017), offering another social allegory ...

Cannes Review: Bi Gan’s ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ is Visually Ravishing, Perhaps to Its Detriment

Bi Gan’s debut feature, Kaili Blues, proved one of the big critical hits of the last few years – all the more impressive for the fact that the writer-director s...

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

The Criterion Collection Announces Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Set

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

Trailers

Remake Trailer: Ross McElwee Crafts the Most Heartbreaking Documentary of 2026

The Samurai and the Prisoner Trailer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Mystery Epic Arrives This July

Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee Tussle Over Legacy In Trailer for Kent Jones’ Late Fame

Reviews

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Heron, I Love Boosters, Tuner, The Sheep Detectives & More

The Best Films of 2026 (So Far)

NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Guy Maddin, Vincente Minnelli, Law of Desire & More

Interviews

“Memory Is Not Something You Can Trust”: Carla Simón on Romería, Family Stories, and Antonioni

“There Are Always Fascists to Defeat”: John Waters on the Enduring Legacy of His Films and Never Getting Cancelled

“It Was Our Job to Commit”: John Early on the Roman Empire, Paul Verhoeven, and Maddie’s Secret

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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