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Jason Statham Battles a Massive Shark in First Trailer for ‘The Meg’

The shark thriller has had quite a life in the many decades since Steven Spielberg's landmark Jaws, but it was only a few years ago that we got a film that ...

Andrew Haigh’s Favorite Films of All-Time

Including John Boorman's stylish thriller Point Blank, Hollywood classics from Orson Welles and Billy Wilder, early films from Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Lucrecia Martel, Lynne Ramsay, and more....

The Film Stage Show Ep. 290 – A Quiet Place

We welcome Candice Frederick to our discussion of the horror film A Quiet Place, directed and starring John Krasinski and co-starring Emily Blunt....

Full Trailer for ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Kicks into Lightspeed

With Fury Road being a bit of an exception, Cannes Film Festival usually isn’t the best birthplace when it comes to Hollywood tentpoles, however it does pro...

NYC Weekend Watch: Joan of Arc, Grace Jones, Mizoguchi x2, Harun Farocki & More

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

New to Streaming: ‘The Commuter,’ ‘Lover for a Day,’ ‘The Post,’ ‘The Florida Project,’ and More

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

Posterized April 2018: ‘You Were Never Really Here,’ ‘Disobedience,’ ‘Zama,’ 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....

Review: ‘A Quiet Place’ is a Spielbergian Thrill Ride Powered by Genuine Fear and Emotion

The world is terrible, and full of monsters. So says the core of solid dread within John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place. Informed by more than just his multi-hyphena...

First Trailer for Lauren Greenfield’s ‘Generation Wealth’ Captures a Luxury Overdose

Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles was the perfect and perhaps too prescient portrait of a specific slice of the 1%, and now for her next documenta...

First Trailer for Sundance Winner ‘The Guilty’ Sets Up One-Location Thrills

Joining the small but no less inventive subgenre of one-location thrillers, The Guilty provides a worthy refute to the idea that a bigger budget always corr...

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: The Unknown Stumbles on Its Own Gender Binarisms

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

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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