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Jake Gyllenhaal Gets ‘Stronger’ in First Trailer for David Gordon Green’s Boston Marathon Bombing Drama

After Peter Berg took some liberties in directing a thriller-esque approach to the Boston Marathon Bombing drama with last year's Patriots Day, a new film t...

The New West: The Greatest Revisionist Westerns of All-Time

The classical western exists as an ideal sandbox setting for stories of heroism to play out, white hats separating the protagonists from the black-hatted antagonists. These films don't play by those rules....

Marion Cotillard Finds Passion in U.S. Trailer for ‘From the Land of the Moon’

While she recently opened Cannes with Ismael's Ghosts, a Marion Cotillard-led feature from last year's festival will now get a release next month. Nicole Ga...

BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘Escapes’ is a Seductive, Larger-Than-Life Look at Hampton Fancher

Escapes isn’t the only Michael Almereyda film showing at BAMcinemaFest this year. In fact, it’s not even Almereyda’s only festival entry dealing with memory (th...

BAMcinemaFest Review: ‘En el Séptimo Día’ is a Compassionate Portrait of the Immigrant Experience

Discussing the ways in which fiction films shift between their linear, wholly narrative impulses and something approaching ethnography is among the most illumin...

Chadwick Boseman Fights for Freedom in First Trailer for ‘Marshall’

While Chadwick Boseman will be most seen as a superhero on the big screen, he's no stranger to playing real-life icons. After Jackie Robinson and James Brow...

June 1977: When New Hollywood Got Weird

40 years ago this week, Martin Scorsese and William Friedkin got ambitious and audiences didn't respond -- initially....

Lily Collins is on the Road to Recovery in Trailer for ‘To the Bone’

Premiering at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, To the Bone marks the directorial debut of Buffy the Vampire Slayer writer Marti Noxon. Led by Lily ...

Review: ‘Dawson City: Frozen Time’ Might Be the Ultimate Found Footage Film

There is a scholarly theory that proposes films are always telling the story of their creation, singing an endless song about their own history. That seemed to ...

Review: ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Doesn’t Break the Mold

I mean, you know what you’re getting by now, right? Did you see any of the other Transformers movies? They are all unified in sensibility of craft, story, an...

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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