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Cannes Review: ‘Ten Years Thailand’ Offers a Largely Bleak Vision of the Country’s Future

In the 2015 omnibus film Ten Years, five Hong Kong filmmakers offered visions of what their country might look like in 2025. Dystopian and fiercely critical of ...

Cannes Review: Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War’ Finds Love In a Hopeless Time and Place

What a deft, lean storyteller this Paweł Pawlikowski has become. The five-year gap between his latest film, teasingly titled Cold War and given a berth in compe...

Review: ‘Bullhead’ Director Michaël R. Roskam Makes a Feeble Return with ‘Racer and the Jailbird’

If it can, should a film lay its foundation on intertextuality? The question being: can you believe two people are in love because you are told, not because you...

Cannes Review: Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Everybody Knows’ Leaves a Sour Note on Opening Night

Disregarding the vomitus of clichés with which Asghar Farhadi introduces the rural Spanish milieu of Everybody Knows, for the first half-hour or so, the Iranian...

Review: ‘Measure of a Man’ is an All-Too-Familiar Coming-of-Age Dramedy

The coming of age dramedy is a crowded genre with many seminal works established in the 70s and 80s. It's tough to therefore see any entries without comparing t...

Review: ‘Revenge’ Introduces a Paradise that Devolves into Hell

The front half of Coralie Fargeat's debut feature Revenge provides audiences the sort of sensory overload that hits like a sledgehammer. You might not think thi...

Review: ‘Terminal’ is Empty-Headed, Derivative Sci-Fi

When the seemingly interminable (ahem) Terminal draws to close, it is hard to fight the feeling that there might not be a bigger cinematic misstep this year. An...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 294 – Tully

We talk about Jason Reitman's newest film, the ode to motherhood that is Tully....

Tribeca Review: ‘Diane’ is a Raw, Restrained, Mature Character Study

The narrative directorial debut of film scholar, curator, and documentary filmmaker Kent Jones elicits an awful lot of anticipation. Often, first features conta...

Tribeca Review: ‘Say Her Name’ is an Ambitious Look at Sandra Bland’s Legacy

Arrested and charged with a felony assault simply for bruising the fragile ego of Waller County, Texas officer Brian Encinia, Sandra Bland would later end up de...

News

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

The Criterion Channel’s July Lineup Features Harry Dean Stanton, Jonathan Demme, The Prisoner & More

The Criterion Collection’s September Lineup Features Leos Carax 4K Set, The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater, Satyajit Ray & More

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Film Forum’s Laurel & Hardy Retrospective Celebrates Comedy Titans

Dreams in Nightmares Trailer: Shatara Michelle Ford’s Acclaimed Second Feature Arrives in August

Shinya Tsukamoto Goes to War In Trailer for English-Language Vietnam Film Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?

Reviews

Rose of Nevada Review: Mark Jenkin’s Stupefying, Time-Slipping Ghost Story

Maddie’s Secret Review: John Early Shows Total Commitment In Feature Debut

Tribeca Review: Alicia Vikander Gives a Restrained, Layered Performance in The Last Day

Features

New to Streaming: Two Pianos, The Last One for the Road, Pressure, The Wizard of the Kremlin & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

Interviews

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

“I’ve Got No Idea How That Works”: Mark Jenkin on Rose of Nevada

Michael Sarnoski on His Favorite Robin Hood Films and the Character’s Violent Mythology

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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