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Review: ‘Love, Simon’ Will Hopefully Pave the Wave for Better Gay Rom-Coms in Hollywood

Besides being gay, Simon Spier is a completely traditional millennial teen movie protagonist. He’s played by a 20-something, sleeps in a ridiculously over-desig...

Review: The Twisted ‘Flower’ is a Great Showcase for Zoey Deutch, but Wilts by the End

Equal parts vulgar and endearing, Flower joins the ranks of recent female-led comedies such as Ingrid Goes West and The Edge of Seventeen that force you to empa...

SXSW Review: ‘Being Frank’ is as Messy as the Legacy of its Subject’s Creation

It's never an easy feat to examine cultural phenomenons when the people telling the story are close to the subject, but Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story make...

SXSW Review: ‘Sadie’ is a Provocative, Emotionally Violent Coming-of-Age Drama

While on its surface, Sadie is not an explicitly political film about the present American condition, it is a story of the “forgotten men and women” hidden from...

‘Eighth Grade’ Trailer: Bo Burnham Revisits the Awkwardness of Adolescence in Directorial Debut

If comedy is best pulled from trauma, there are few moments in one’s life more distressingly rich to mine from than middle school. With his directorial debu...

Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde Experience ‘Life Itself’ in First Trailer

After mostly focusing on animation, scripting Tangled, Bolt, Cars, and more, Dan Fogelman jumped into live-action with Crazy, Stupid, Love., and then soon f...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 287 – A Wrinkle in Time

We travel the length and breadth of the universe in our conversation about A Wrinkle in Time, the newest film from Ava DuVernay....

First Trailer for Steven Soderbergh-Produced ‘Perfect,’ Scored by Flying Lotus

Not only is Steven Soderbergh directing new projects and movies at a fast clip (he's currently shooting another feature with his iPhone at the moment), he's...

First Trailer for Pablo Trapero’s ‘La Quietud’ Starring Bérénice Bejo, Edgar Ramírez & Martina Gusmán

After getting on our radar with The Clan a few years back, Pablo Trapero is back with his seemingly highest-profile film yet, the thriller La Quietud. Starr...

SXSW Review: ‘Blockers’ is a Hilarious, Empowering Raunch Fest

Blockers doesn’t pull off the impossible so much as it turns the tables on a common formula, finding something fresh, empowering, and hilarious in that time-old...

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

The Criterion Collection Announces Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Set

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

Trailers

Will Poulter Navigates an American Crisis In First Trailer for Union County

Exclusive Trailer for Japan Cuts 2026 Highlights the Best of New Japanese Cinema

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Traverse Giallo Underworld In Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

Reviews

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: 70mm Conspiracies, Immigrants, Spectres, Sherman’s March & More

Posterized July 2026: The Samurai and the Prisoner, The Odyssey, Night Nurse & More

12 Films to See in July

Interviews

Ross McElwee on Remake and the Painful, Profound Process of Making a Testament to His Son’s Life

Tamra Davis on Billy Madison, Half Baked, Watching Fellini and Coppola on Set, Bonding with Britney Spears, and The Best Summer

“There’s No Incentive for a Filmmaker to Retire”: Alex Cox on Returning With Dead Souls

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

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