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Kleber Mendonça Filho on Pictures of Ghosts, the Future of Film Exhibition, and Stanley Kubrick Memories

Nothing gold can stay. So the saying goes and is thoughtfully illustrated in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s latest film Pictures of Ghosts. It’s a mosaic portrait of ...

Sundance Review: Daughters is an Insightful, Emotional Portrait of Brief Reunions

A striking film that evokes a wave of emotions, Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s Daughters is another picture––à la Rudy Valdez’s The Sentence, Garrett Bradley’...

Sundance 2024 Winners Include In the Summers, Porcelain War, Sujo, and A New Kind of Wilderness

While there's still a few days left of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including the opportunity to watch many titles from the comfort of your own home, the j...

Sundance Review: A Different Man Sets a Disfigured Sebastian Stan Into a Surrealist Identity Drama

There are a lot of ways A Different Man could go and a lot of things it could be. Aaron Schimberg’s uniquely uncomfortable, uncomfortably unique feature someti...

Sundance Review: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is an Emotionally Soaring, Straightforward Bio-Doc

Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story recounts and examines the incredibly compelling, tragic, redemptive story of...

Sundance Review: The Moogai Offers a New Spin on an Old, Old Ghost Story

It seems these days the devil’s designs have strayed from virginal teen girls to kindergarteners. Whether stuffing them in animatronic suits or isolating them ...

First Trailer for Dev Patel’s Directorial Debut Monkey Man, Produced by Jordan Peele

After working with the likes of Wes Anderson, Danny Boyle, David Lowery, M. Night Shyamalan, and more, Dev Patel is now stepping behind the camera himself for ...

New to Streaming: Ferrari, Sundance 2024, Once Within a Time, Four Daughters & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

“It’s Uncomfortable to Be a Human in this World”: Daisy Ridley on Sometimes I Think About Dying

In Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying, Daisy Ridley plays Fran, a quiet woman who loves cottage cheese. Working in an office, with all of the nonde...

Watch Paul Thomas Anderson’s Music Video for The Smile’s “Friend of a Friend”

Somewhere between "Wall of Eyes" and starting production on a $100 million, Leonardo DiCaprio-starring feature, Paul Thomas Anderson directed another video for...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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