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NYICFF Review: ‘Sing Song’ is an Endearing Look at a Young Woman’s Search for Identity

For Dutch teenager Jasmine (Georgiefa Boomdijk), her homeland of Suriname (a northeastern South American country) is a footnote. She knows little about it or th...

First Trailer for ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Boots Up

Disney is booting up their franchise powers yet again, this time sequelizing Wreck-Ralph, the animated hit from 2012 following an arcade game bad-guy who re...

Review: ‘Mohawk’ is a Raw, Urgent Story of Survival

In director Ted Geoghegan’s debut We Are Still Here, the subtlest horrors came from quiet images of nature. Within its context, creaking trees and beautiful lan...

NYICFF Review: ‘Liyana’ Brings Hope with Swaziland-Set Hybrid Tale

There's multiple ways to tell stories depending on the message you wish to instill. So when the subject you're tackling concerns a country like Swaziland with a...

The Best Films at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival

The best films from the first major European festival of the year....

Review: ‘Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?’ Frames American Racism as an Unholy Haunting

Throughout the remarkable Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? – director Travis Wilkerson’s attempt to learn more about and confront the murder of the African Ame...

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon Light Up in First Trailer for ‘Fahrenheit 451’

Chalk it up to it not actually getting a theatrical release, but it seems like it wasn't on the top of everyone's radar that the great Ramin Bahrani (Chop S...

A Star is Born in First Trailer for ‘Roxanne Roxanne’

At the age of 14, the Queens-based Roxanne Shanté emerged on the hip-hop scene, becoming a young star in the process. Now the subject of a new biopic Roxann...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 285 – Annihilation and Mute

We talk about two very different science fiction films from two very different British directors....

Berlin Review: ‘Touch Me Not’ is a Studious, Scattershot Look at Modern Sexuality

A blend of documentary, fiction, staged therapy, and biography–with considerable full-frontal nudity and sex–the surprise winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear ...

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

Remake Trailer: Ross McElwee Crafts the Most Heartbreaking Documentary of 2026

The Samurai and the Prisoner Trailer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Mystery Epic Arrives This July

Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee Tussle Over Legacy In Trailer for Kent Jones’ Late Fame

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

The Best Films of 2026 (So Far)

NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Guy Maddin, Vincente Minnelli, Law of Desire & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“Memory Is Not Something You Can Trust”: Carla Simón on Romería, Family Stories, and Antonioni

“There Are Always Fascists to Defeat”: John Waters on the Enduring Legacy of His Films and Never Getting Cancelled

“It Was Our Job to Commit”: John Early on the Roman Empire, Paul Verhoeven, and Maddie’s Secret

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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