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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...

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...

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

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

Trailers

The Uprising Trailer: Andrew Garfield Leads a Rebellion for Paul Greengrass

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

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

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

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

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