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NYFF Review: ‘Last Flag Flying’ is a Road Trip Movie That Charts a Familiar Path

Few filmmakers capture people hanging out quite like Richard Linklater, who has so many features revolving around convivial moments that it would be easier to l...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 264 – Rat Film

We explore the rat-infested streets of Baltimore while discussing the documentary/video essay Rat Film by Theo Anthony....

‘Annihilation’ Trailer: ‘Ex Machina’ Director Alex Garland Returns to the Future

While we'll be getting a sci-fi blockbuster behemoth with Blade Runner 2049 soon, one of our next most-anticipated films in the genre is Alex Garland's Ex M...

A New Trailer for ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ is Here to Make You Feel Terrible

The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos is back with another film to make you feel terrible. In Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Colin Farrell plays a...

San Sebastián Review: ‘The Motive’ is a Smart Spanish Comedy

Writer’s block as a theme has given us subversive movies like Barton Fink and Adaptation, films that visualize creative impasse through contorted narratives and...

Head to the Jungle in the First Trailer for Brett Morgen’s ‘Jane’

There's been no shortage of Kurt Cobain documentaries, but Brett Morgen delivered one of the most bracingly personal and affecting with Montage of Heck a fe...

‘Spring’ Directors Go Supernatural in First Trailer for ‘The Endless’

After melding a romance drama akin to Before Sunrise with an unsettling horror feature in Spring, directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are back wi...

Review: In ‘I Am Another You,’ a Filmmaker and Subject Become Intertwined

Documentarian Nanfu Wang left China in 2011 to find the freedom that remaining in her home country never could provide. She came to America — specifically New Y...

15 Under-the-Radar Highlights at the 55th New York Film Festival

We take a deep look at the NYFF 2017 line-up and share potential overlooked gems....

Trailer for Restoration for ‘The Old Dark House,’ from ‘Frankenstein’ Director James Whale

If Hollywood's horror offerings this October have you feeling unperturbed and disappointed, a restoration of a classic in the genre will help to provide you...

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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