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Trailer for ‘It Happened in L.A.’ Introduces a Whit Stillman-Esque Portrait of Los Angeles

One of my favorite discoveries at this year's Sundance Film Festival was Michelle Morgan's It Happened in L.A. (then going by the SEO-unfriendly title L.A. ...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 267 – Brawl in Cell Block 99

Today, Michael Snydel and I are joined by Dan Mecca in order to talk about the rough and tumble tour through hell that is Brawl in Cell Block 99, the newest film from writer/director S. Craig Zahler....

‘Thoroughbreds’ Trailer: A Dark Plan is Hatched in Sundance Hit

One of the most acclaimed films coming out of Sundance Film Festival earlier this year was Cory Finley's Thoroughbreds. The black comedy, starring Olivia Co...

Review: ‘Never Here’ is a Reality-Blurring Suspense Thriller

Miranda Fall (Mireille Enos) is a cataloger. Her art leads her on journeys following new subjects in order to understand who each is by what each does and posse...

NYFF Review: ‘Dragonfly Eyes’ Captures the Malleability of Postmodern Identity

The modern pervasiveness of surveillance technology causes an unfamiliar type of cognitive dissonance where their use is collectively recognized but an innate f...

NYFF Review: ‘The Venerable W.’ Examines the Roots of Modern Extremism

By Siddhant Adlakha When attempting to parse the root causes of religious extremism, a common argument in western discourse involves not only pointing to Islam...

Hamburg Review: ‘Cocote’ is a Drama of Visual Virtuosity and Tantalizing Promise

Fans of fierce, challenging indigenous cinema rejoice. It’s not every day that you see a film from and depicting the life in the Dominican Republic, let alone o...

San Sebastián Review: ‘Apostasy’ is a Restrained, Troubling Portrait of Rigid Religiosity

A central scene in Apostasy, the powerful debut from British director Daniel Kokotajlo, has a group of kids stage a re-enactment of King Solomon’s judgment, the...

‘Félicité’ Director Alain Gomis on Morality, Musicality, and Modernity

Set in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Félicité is the new film from Alain Gomis, a French director of Guinea-Bissauan and Senegalese descent....

Second Trailer for ‘Black Panther’ Finds Chadwick Boseman Protecting a Nation

In just a few weeks we'll see what a Taika Waititi-directed Marvel movie looks like, then a few months later, Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed) will d...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Trailer for 4K Restoration of Ngozi Onwurah’s Welcome II the Terrordome Presents an Afrofuturist Vision

Tom Cruise Needs to Save the World in First Trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Kim Min-hee Takes a Walk in First Teaser for Hong Sangsoo’s 35th Feature Nowhere to Lay My Eyes

Reviews

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Remake Review: Ross McElwee’s Introspective Documentary Haunts with Humanity

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

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

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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