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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...

ND/NF Review: ‘Drift’ is an Entrancing, One-of-a-Kind Cinematic Experience

A few minutes into Helena Wittmann’s Drift, two young ladies sit at a bar and recount an old myth from Papua New Guinea. It’s an anecdote of the world’s creatio...

Review: ‘Big Fish & Begonia’ is a Distinctive Animated Tale of Life, Death, and Love

In 2004, directors Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang created a Flash animation for an online contest. From there they expanded it into a feature length film steeped in ...

First Trailer for Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Proves its Existence

We'll believe it's officially real when we're sitting in the theater taking it in, but the best proof yet that Terry Gilliam has actually finished his oft-c...

First Trailer for Asghar Farhadi’s Cannes Opener ‘Everybody Knows’ Starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem

For the first time since 2004–when Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education opened the festival–a film not in French or English will kick off Cannes Film Festival. I...

A Young Girl Enacts Rebellion in Trailer for Acclaimed Iranian Debut ‘Ava’

One of 2018's first notable debuts, Ava concerns a young girl's coming-of-age via rebellion -- a not-unfamiliar idea that writer-director Sadaf Foroughi mak...

15 Films to See in April

The calm before the Cannes and summer movie season storm, April has the makings of one of the best months of the year for movie-going....

‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ Trailer: Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman Invade the Punk Scene

Writer-director John Cameron Mitchell (Rabbit Hole, Shortbus) is back this year, teaming with author Neil Gaiman, and a cast featuring Elle Fanning, Alex Sh...

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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