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Terrence Malick and Godfrey Reggio Present First Trailer for Globe-Spanning Documentary ‘Awaken’

While we await the official release of Terrence Malick's feature-length version of Voyage of Time, someone who served on his crew for that epic documentary ...

Trailer for ‘Icarus’ Investigates Massive Olympic Doping Scandal in Russia

Since conspiracy and controversy in regards to Russia hasn't dominated the airwaves enough, a new Netflix-distributed documentary, Icarus, takes a different...

New Trailers for ‘Lemon’ and ‘Kuso’ Highlight Two of the Year’s Most Peculiar Films

While some have lamented that Sundance Film Festival has skewed more celebrity-focused in recent years, giving credence to star wattage over quality, those ...

First Trailer for Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner ‘The Square’

After his breakout film Force Majeure in 2014, Swedish director Ruben Östlund has followed-up with the well-received if hotly debated satire The Square, whi...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 252 – Spider-Man: Homecoming

Does the return of the wall-crawler herald a new dawn for the MCU, or is it just more of the same?...

Harry Dean Stanton Takes a Spiritual Journey in First Trailer for ‘Lucky’

After making a profound impression in Zodiac, The Invitation, Shutter Island, and more, John Carroll Lynch has stepped behind the camera as a director for t...

New to Streaming: ‘Punch-Drunk Love,’ ‘Free Fire,’ ‘The Salesman,’ and More

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

NYC Weekend Watch: Cool Movies, Southern Gothic, ’70s New York & More

The best films screening in NYC this weekend....

Trailer for ‘Casa de Lava’ Restoration Plunges Us Into Pedro Costa’s Dark, Mysterious World

Before diving deep into the slums of Fontainhas for his epochal trilogy and its follow-up, Horse Money, Pedro Costa applied his lens in a significantly diff...

Abel Ferrara’s ‘Go Go Tales’: Art, Commerce, Beauty, and Exploitation

10 years later, we look back at Ferrara's drama and why art needs exploitation in order to survive within capitalist culture....

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

The Criterion Collection Announces Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Set

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

Trailers

Remake Trailer: Ross McElwee Crafts the Most Heartbreaking Documentary of 2026

The Samurai and the Prisoner Trailer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Mystery Epic Arrives This July

Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee Tussle Over Legacy In Trailer for Kent Jones’ Late Fame

Reviews

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

The Best Films of 2026 (So Far)

NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Guy Maddin, Vincente Minnelli, Law of Desire & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“Memory Is Not Something You Can Trust”: Carla Simón on Romería, Family Stories, and Antonioni

“There Are Always Fascists to Defeat”: John Waters on the Enduring Legacy of His Films and Never Getting Cancelled

“It Was Our Job to Commit”: John Early on the Roman Empire, Paul Verhoeven, and Maddie’s Secret

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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