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BIFF Review: ‘Woman on Fire’ is an Inspiring Portrait of NYC’s First Openly Transgender Firefighter

I'm not sure anyone could have written a better script than Brooke Guinan's real life to truly focus on what it means to be a transgender person in a bigoted, "...

BIFF Review: ‘Train Driver’s Diary’ Has Bitingly Sardonic Wit and Authentic Melancholy

Whether a result of suicide, drunken stupidity, or sheer dumb luck, train drivers the world over kill people. You'd like to believe it's a rarity, but the truth...

NYFF Review: ‘Filmworker’ Fails to Probe the Man Behind Stanley Kubrick

Even well before his death in 1999, the life and work of Stanley Kubrick has been meticulously documented and expounded upon to such an extent that a cult of pe...

Posterized October 2017: ‘The Florida Project,’ ‘Wonderstruck,’ ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer,’ and More

This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats....

BIFF Review: ‘Mermaids’ Captures a Joyous Rebirth

On first blush Ali Weinstein's documentary Mermaids focuses its glimpse at the titular sea myth's power towards the whimsical and fun. She takes us from the day...

BIFF Review: ‘Prodigy’ Dips Its Characters Into a Pool of Guilt

Guilt is a powerful thing. It can make you act in ways that go against your own survival and yet still ensure those actions are selfishly motivated. You aren't ...

New to Streaming: ‘Dawson City: Frozen Time,’ ‘Marjorie Prime,’ ‘Lady Macbeth,’ ‘Landline,’ and More

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

NYC Weekend Watch: Chinatown Cinema, ‘The Old Dark House,’ Tobe Hooper & More

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repe...

‘Blade Runner’ and the Fluid Canvas of Ridley Scott’s Sci-Fi Masterpiece

As a Blade Runner sequel arrives, we look at Ridley Scott's The Final Cut of the original and beyond....

Denzel Washington is ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’ in First Trailer for Dan Gilroy’s ‘Nightcrawler’ Follow-Up

After crafting one of the best directorial debuts of its respective year, Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy is back with a Denzel Washington-led crime...

News

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

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

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

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

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & 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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