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Tribeca Review: ‘The Feeling of Being Watched’ is an Engaging First-Person Doc with No Simple Answers

Public radio producer-turned-filmmaker Assia Boundaoui faces a problem in how she approaches her autobiographical documentary, The Feeling of Being Watched: she...

Montclair Review: ‘The Sentence’ Makes an Intimate Emotional Argument Against Mandatory Minimums

A powerful DIY film cobbled together from testimonials, iPhone videos, and home movies, Rudy Valdez’s personal documentary The Sentence explores the personal to...

Montclair Review: ‘I Am Not a Witch’ is an Ambitious But Messy Psychological Satire

Recalling the polemics of Ousmane Sembène, Rungano Nyoni’s Zambian film I Am Not a Witch is an impressively crafted comedy of manners turned tragedy. The film c...

Montclair Review: ‘Studio 54’ is Both a Sprawling and Compact History of the Major Disco Club

A sprawling yet compact history of the iconic night club, Studio 54 focuses on the club’s founders, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, two men who turned a small bu...

Review: ‘Boom for Real’ is an Adequate Overview of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Operating in the subgenre of talking-head art doc, where a filmmaker close to their subject sit and talk with friends about the good ol’ days, Sara Driver’s Boo...

Cannes Review: Alice Rohrwacher’s Talents Fully Bloom with the Masterful ‘Happy as Lazzaro’

The films of Alice Rohrwacher have always been rich with the sensory magic of growing up, but that atmosphere has, up to this point, been enhanced with the know...

Cannes Review: ‘The Gentle Indifference of the World’ is One of Cannes’ Best Romances

Sometimes it isn't enough to simply portray the type of eternal love that Shakespeare wrote about in Romeo and Juliet. Watching two star-crossed lovers attempt ...

Review: Alan Rudolph’s ‘Ray Meets Helen’ Makes for an Ample Reunion with Keith Carradine

Even in his prime, Alan Rudolph always seemed lost in time, nostalgic for an unlived past. His flawed characters reflect this alienation to modernity, fatalisti...

Review: ‘Book Club’ Offers a Sweet, Sincere, But Narrow Perspective on Aging

Besides the numerous raunchy one-liners spoken by the central quartet of aging stars for easy laughs, there's one short passage from Fifty Shades of Grey that's...

Cannes Review: Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Burning’ Turns Haruki Murakami Into a Frothy Page-Turner

Whoever it was that said a film should be expanded from a short story, not condensed from a long one, certainly had Lee Chang-dong’s ear. For his latest film th...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Trailer for 4K Restoration of Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II the Terrordome Presents an Afrofuturist Vision

Tom Cruise Needs to Save the World in First Trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Kim Min-hee Takes a Walk in First Teaser for Hong Sangsoo’s 35th Feature Nowhere to Lay My Eyes

Reviews

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Remake Review: Ross McElwee’s Introspective Documentary Haunts with Humanity

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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