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DOC NYC Review: ‘Vigilante’ Entertainingly Revisits a Slice of New York City History

Embodying every cliché of the working class New York City loudmouth is long-time local legend Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels, an organization of d...

DOC NYC Review: ‘The Iron Triangle’ is Blighted by Too Little of “The Little Guy”

Following up on a landscape previously documented in Ramin Bahrani’s brilliant narrative feature Chop Shop, directors Prudence Katze and William Lehman chronicl...

DOC NYC Review: ‘Meth Storm’ is a Heartbreaking Film with No Easy Answers

For some who grow up in rural Arkansas there's limited options: you can either be a meth dealer or a cop chasing meth dealers. Set in a close-knit community of ...

New to Streaming: ‘Woodshock,’ ‘The Big Sick,’ ‘Heart of a Dog,’ and More

All the newly streaming films of Amazon, FilmStruck, and more....

NYC Weekend Watch: The Non-Actor, Bertolucci, Aki Kaurismäki & More

The best films screening in NYC this weekend....

The Film Stage Show Ep. 272 – The Untamed

Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham and I get weird with it and talk about the almost indescribable new film from Amat Escalante, the sexual thriller The Untamed....

Review: ‘Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story’ Profiles the Brilliant Mind of a Hollywood Icon

The tell-all "autobiography" Ecstasy and Me: My Life As A Woman was exactly what Hedy Lamarr's agent wanted to make quick money. But it wasn't her life. Whether...

Review: ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ is a Charming Look Behind a Beloved Story

As Les Standiford's book would tell it, Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) found himself in somewhat of a creative rut after a lengthy and expensive tour of America ...

DOC NYC Review: ‘Maddman: The Steve Madden Story’ is a Lively Look at the Man Behind the Shoe

Functioning in the mode of a lifestyle documentary like Dogtown and Z-Boys, Ben Patterson’s Maddman: The Steve Madden Story tells the sweeping take the shoe imp...

Review: ‘Sylvio’ is a Touching, Absurdist Comedy

Vine fad “Simply Sylvio” and its film adaptation -- more plainly titled Sylvio -- by directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley offer a tense amalgamation of ...

News

Jia Zhangke, Claire Denis, and Sam Raimi Set Next Features

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

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: Dominga Sotomayor’s La Perra Ditches Facile Metaphors for Allusive Mysteries

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

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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