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First Trailer for David Wain’s ‘A Futile and Stupid Gesture’ Tells the Story of National Lampoon

After delivering one of the funniest, most tear-inducing parodies of all-time with They Came Together, David Wain gave us two Wet Hot American Summer TV sea...

First Trailer for ‘Chappaquiddick’ Depicts a Kennedy Family Cover-Up

After last year's Jackie, another drama depicting a Kennedy family incident came to Toronto International Film Festival this fall. Chappaquiddick, directed ...

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2017

This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp, and we're highlighting the handful of 2017 debuts that most impressed us....

‘Hostiles’ Review: Christian Bale Gives an Authentic Performance in Unsubtle Parable

The fact that America's past isn't without its horrific nightmares of misguided violence and oppression shouldn't be lost on anyone, especially not with everyth...

Review: ‘The Greatest Showman’ Skirts History to Deliver a Progressive Crowdpleaser

Best to get this out of the way first. Though The Greatest Showman, directed by visual effects artist and first-time filmmaker Michael Gracey, tells the story o...

The Best Documentaries of 2017

Film preservation, healing from past trauma, ISIS, libraries, chimps, rats, and cats -- these were just a few of the subjects and stories that this year's documentary offerings brought us....

‘Sicario 2: Soldado’ Trailer: Josh Brolin & Benicio Del Toro Return to the Border

After Denis Villeneuve's crime thriller Sicario a few years back became a hit, as Hollywood often decides to do, a "saga" has now been born. While Emily Blu...

The Con Begins in the First Trailer for ‘Ocean’s 8’

Steven Soderbergh is back in the directing chair, but after directing a redneck spin on Ocean's 11 with Logan Lucky, he didn't return for Ocean's 8, a femal...

First Trailer for ‘Mortal Engines’ Introduces Peter Jackson-Produced Steampunk Adventure

After exhausting himself with the demands of The Hobbit trilogy, Peter Jackson is taking a break from directing with no new projects announced. However, he'...

Jack Black is ‘The Polka King’ in First Trailer for Ponzi Scheme Comedy

Regardless of the quality of the final project, Jack Black and his boundless energy is often the best part of any film he's a part of. This can be said of t...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

I Want Your Sex Teaser: Gregg Araki Returns with Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman

Reviews

Promised Sky Review: A Heartbreaking Drama That Hits Home

Disclosure Day Review: A Soul-Searching, Spine-Tingling Blockbuster Triumph

Tribeca Review: Ponderosa Takes Enigmatic, Comic Aim at America’s National Myths

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & More

New to Streaming: Pillion, Is God Is, Erupcja, Omaha & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

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

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

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