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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...

ND/NF Review: ‘A Violent Life’ is as Distant as the Island and the Lost Generation it Portrays

The past is a home country in Corsica-born French director Thierry de Peretti’s second feature, A Violent Life. A crime saga chronicling Corsica’s gruesome 1990...

ND/NF Review: ‘The Great Buddha+’ is a Provocative, Unassuming Satire of Taiwanese Society

Huang Hsin-Yao is a new voice in independent Taiwanese cinema, and his first narrative feature–an adaptation of his short film The Great Buddha–carries itself w...

ND/NF Review: ‘Black Mother’ is a Beautiful, Lyrical Ethnographic Portrait of Jamaica

Khalik Allah's debut feature Field Niggas took viewers by surprise. The film, a rare contemporary ethnographic documentary set on the corner of 125th and Lexing...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 289 – Ready Player One

Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham, and I welcome Jaime Smith to help us talk about ...

News

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

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

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

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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