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Sundance Review: ‘Damsel’ is a Humorously Eccentric Feminist Anti-Western

Two men sit on a bench in the vast desert of the American west waiting for a stagecoach that’s nowhere to be found. One, a grizzled preacher (Robert Forster), i...

Sundance Review: ‘NANCY’ Features Career-Best Work From Andrea Riseborough

Rare is it that one gets to see a performance as strong as Andrea Riseborough’s in NANCY. Written and directed by Christina Choe, the film concerns a thirty-som...

Sundance Review: ‘The Tale’ is a Soul-Excavating Cinematic Memoir of Sexual Abuse

What does your life mean if the memories that have defined you are revealed to be false? What if the memories are tied to devastating trauma? For Jennifer Fox (...

Sundance Review: ‘Of Fathers and Sons’ is a Chilling Look at Extremism

Several years after going to his native Syria in the midst of war in The Return to Homs, director Talal Derki does it again, this time infiltrating the Islamic ...

Sundance Review: ‘Come Sunday’ is an Admirable, but Hollow Crisis of Faith Drama

It’s rare that mainstream filmmakers attempt to take seriously matters of faith – a subject personal to a majority of people but which movies have historically ...

Sundance Review: ‘Bisbee ’17’ Captures the Living Memory of Generational Sin

Here is a story that makes Faulkner’s adage about the past not being past seem horribly valid. A hundred years ago, both the Arizona mining town of Bisbee and A...

Sundance Review: ‘Leave No Trace’ is an Emotional, Quiet Study of a Father-Daughter Bond

Early scenes of Leave No Trace feel like The Road. Not the movie adaptation, but Cormac McCarthy’s book, which evokes familial intimacy to an almost harrowing d...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 280 – Phantom Thread

We talk the beautiful, heady new drama from Paul Thomas Anderson, which features Daniel Day-Lewis's final role....

Sundance Review: ‘Skate Kitchen’ Bursts with Youthful, Empowering Exuberance

For her breakthrough documentary The Wolfpack, director Crystal Moselle discovered a group of sheltered brothers in NYC’s Lower East Side and captured their pas...

Sundance Review: ‘RBG’ is an Essential, Moving Portrait of a Liberal Superhero

RBG is an essential documentary for the adoring fans of Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg aka The Notorious RBG, according to some millennials...

News

Kenneth Lonergan Returns with Tomorrow Is a Drag; Aubrey Plaza, Adam Driver, Matthew Broderick, and Vanessa Kirby Starring

NYC Weekend Watch: Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever, Southland Tales, Gamer & More

The Criterion Channel’s June Lineup Features Odysseys, Weddings, James Bond, and Brian Eno

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig Inhabit an Artist In Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse

The Rivals of Amziah King Trailer: Matthew McConaughey Leads Andrew Patterson’s Crime Thriller

Reviews

Cannes Review: All of a Sudden Is Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Most Empathetic, Humanist Film to Date

Cannes Review: Clarissa Provides a Formally Adventurous Showcase For Sophie Okonedo

Cannes Review: The Meltdown Is an Elusive Chilean Chiller

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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