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Cannes Review: David Robert Mitchell’s ‘Under the Silver Lake’ is a Wise, Pynchon-Inspired Noir Subversion

David Robert Mitchell is a nostalgic. His debut feature, The Myth of the American Sleepover, paid tribute to such teenage dramas as American Graffiti and the wo...

Cannes Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Shoplifters’ Finds Empathy and Grace In the Lives of Petty Criminals

With Like Father Like Son (2013), Our Little Sister (2015), and After the Storm (2016) all premiering one after the other at the Cannes film festival and The Th...

Cannes Review: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Happy Hour’ Follow-Up ‘Asako I & II’ is a Romance Lacking In Passion

I have unfortunately not seen any of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s earlier work, and am therefore lacking a basis for comparison. Still, after the lavish praise that was ...

Cannes Review: Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Evokes an Unsubtle, Accessible Response to Donald Trump

There are many things of which we may not necessarily need reminding that, nevertheless, must not be forgotten. Trust me when I say it is in no way a spoiler to...

IndieLisboa Review: Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s ‘A Paris Education’ is a Nostalgic, Anachronistic Dive Into a New Wave World

Halfway through writer-director Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s cinephile coming-of-age story A Paris Education, a girl confronts a budding filmmaker: “You seem out of tou...

Cannes Review: At Its Best, Lars von Trier’s ‘The House That Jack Built’ Makes for Irresistible, Barefaced Insanity

The Wikipedia entry for Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) describes the condition as "a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerate...

Cannes Review: Jafar Panahi’s ‘3 Faces’ Is a Loose, Empathetic, Ultimately Minor Work

3 Faces is the fourth film Jafar Panahi has made in defiance of a 20-year filmmaking ban the Iranian government issued against him in 2010. The first three were...

Review: David Leitch and Ryan Reynolds Enliven a By-the-Numbers ‘Deadpool 2’

The biggest critical gripe coming out of the first Deadpool was that its attempts to subvert the superhero genre were squandered by being a superhero film. What...

Cannes Review: Lukas Dhont’s ‘Girl’ is a Stellar Transgender Drama

In the same way that keeping your top five movies on-hand can save a not-insignificant amount of time and brainpower over the course of one's life, it’s just as...

Spike Lee-Helmed, Jordan Peele-Produced ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Gets First Trailer Ahead of Cannes Premiere

A Spike Lee movie called Blackklansman likely goes one of two ways, the question at hand being: are we getting a film by the director Do the Right Thing, Mi...

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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