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Posterized February 2025: Armand, Universal Language, The Monkey & More

2025 is in full swing and a majority of America is probably looking for a means of escape from the literal and figurative flames engulfing their nation...

New to Streaming: All We Imagine as Light, Matt and Mara, Suze, Jazzy & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

Sundance Review: Kiss of the Spider Woman Finds Jennifer Lopez in Top Form

In their dark, damp prison quarters, Malina (Tonatiuh) and Valentin (Diego Luna) only have each other for company. Valentin is a radical imprisoned for his rev...

Sundance Review: Ricky is a Portrait of a Tender Man in a Harsh World

Ricky (Stephen James) has only been out of prison a few weeks, but the real world has already become too much for him. His parole officer Joanne (Sheryl Lee Ra...

Sundance Review: Middletown Remembers a High School Class That Held Up Truth to Power

In 1991, Middletown High School teacher Fred Isseks started an elective class that every student wanted to take. “Electronic English” introduced teenagers to n...

NYC Weekend Watch: Obayashi, Willem Dafoe, Jean Cocteau, The Magnificent Ambersons & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Japan SocietyA six-film Nobuhiko Obayashi retrospective, featuring imported 35mm and 16mm p...

Tsui Hark Returns In U.S. Trailer for Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants

Though once head-spinningly prolific, Tsui Hark hasn't directed a solo feature since 2018's Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings, the time between then and n...

Rotterdam Review: Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven is a Whirlwind Tour Through the Golden Age of the Video Store

In Videoheaven, Blockbuster––to take after Thom Andersen––plays itself. Now deep in a pop-cultural-scholarship phase inaugurated by his last feature Paveme...

Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada Starring George MacKay and Callum Turner Gets First Image and Plot Details

After Bait and Enys Men proved to be a pair of the most tactile, distinctive films of the last few years, director Mark Jenkin is expanding scope for his lates...

Sundance Review: Rabbit Trap Sets Dev Patel in a Wholly Immersive Horror Story

It’s always thrilling when a horror film explores the power and possibility of sound. Much modern horror is too quiet, missing the opportunity to create an imm...

News

Leonardo DiCaprio Will Lead Martin Scorsese’s Home; Apple and Todd Field to Produce

New Directors/New Films Unveils 2025 Lineup

Paris’ La Clef Revival Comes to New York for Week of Film Screenings; Watch Appreciations from Martin Scorsese and John Carpenter

Trailers

Sex Work in 1970s Japan Gets the Spotlight in Exclusive Trailer for Noboru Tanaka’s Newly Restored The Oldest Profession

Léa Seydoux, Elle Fanning, and Luca Marinelli Lead New Trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

A Palestinian Teacher Fights Back in U.S. Trailer for Farah Nabulsi’s Acclaimed Drama The Teacher

Reviews

SXSW Review: The Threesome is an Ambitious, Flawed Rom-Com From Chad Hartigan

SXSW Review: Rodney Ascher’s Ghost Boy is a Moving, Philosophical Documentary About Being Trapped

You Burn Me Review: Matías Piñeiro Muses on Sapphic Fragments and Unrequited Love

Features

7 Films to See at MoMI’s First Look 2025

Posterized March 2025: Grand Tour, Eephus, Misericordia & More

New to Streaming: Gene Hackman, Michael Mann, Vermiglio, CHAOS: The Manson Murders & More

Interviews

Philippe Lesage on Who by Fire, the Importance of Imperfection, and What TV Can Never Steal From Cinema

Bruno Dumont on The Empire, Star Wars, and the Maelstrom of Human Nature

Matías Piñeiro on You Burn Me, Departing Shakespeare, and Hong Sangsoo’s Constant Reinvention

Podcasts

The Film Stage Presents Emulsion: Episode One

The B-Side – 2025 Oscars Special (with Joe Reid & Chris Feil)

The B-Side – Peter Hyams (with Mike Ryan)

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