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Review: ‘Paddington 2’ is a Delightful, Anti-Brexit Adventure

We’re just a few weeks into 2018, but a very early candidate for Most Charming Film has arrived. Paddington 2 is a genuine delight, a sequel that improves upon ...

Review: ‘The Commuter’ is a Blissfully Lucid Thriller

In the world of Hollywood where “action” is often synonymous with CGI-heavy monstrosities splattered across the screen backed by an assaultive sound design, the...

Our 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2018

We count down the films we're most looking forward to this year....

Exclusive Trailer for ‘Mercury in Retrograde’ Shows Relationships in Flux

While Chicago is known to host large Hollywood productions, if one peers deeper into its filmmaking scene, there is no shortage of independent riches. We re...

Exclusive Trailer for ‘A Thousand Junkies’ Captures the All-Consuming Search for the Next Fix

The screenwriter behind such family fare as Cool Runnings, Little Giants, and Snow Dogs, Tommy Swerdlow spent nearly two decades addicted to heroin and meth...

The 50 Best 2018 Films We’ve Already Seen

The best films this year that we can whole-heartily recommend....

Jennifer Lawrence Springs into Action in New Trailer for ‘Red Sparrow’

After giving one of the best performances of her career thus far in Darren Aronofsky's mother!, Jennifer Lawrence is back this spring for another R-rated fe...

Trailer and Line-Up for Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective Celebrates a Master

On July 14, 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman was born, and a quarter-century later, he began to bring his cinematic voice to the world. A century aft...

John Fink’s Top 10 Films of 2017

Featuring films from Ruben Östlund, kogonada, Pixar, So Yong Kim, and more....

New to Streaming: ‘Wonderstruck,’ ‘No Country for Old Men,’ ‘Lucky,’ ‘Zodiac,’ and More

All the newly streaming films on Netflix, Amazon, FilmStruck, and more....

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

The Uprising Trailer: Andrew Garfield Leads a Rebellion for Paul Greengrass

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

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