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Review: ‘The Apology’ is an Enraging and Sorrowful Documentary

Grandma Gil from South Korea, Grandma Cao from China, and Grandma Adela from the Philippines are just three of the 200,000 women who found themselves kidnapped ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Bresson, Lubitsch, Varda & More

The best films screening in New York City this weekend....

First Trailer for ‘Landline’ Finds the ‘Obvious Child’ Team Going Back to the 1990s

Although it was marketed as an “abortion romantic comedy,” Obvious Child went beyond that basic moniker, using the set-up to mine humor from the fears and a...

‘Hostel: Part II’ and the Monster of Neoliberal Late-Capitalism

10 years later, we look at the sequel that acts both as an inversion and a political expansion of its predecessor....

Trailers for New Restorations of Mike Nichols’ ‘The Graduate’ and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’

A pair of Oscar winners have recently undergone new restorations ahead of theatrical releases. While one can't get much better than The Criterion Collection...

A Camping Trip Goes Brutally Wrong in U.S. Trailer for ‘Killing Ground’

There's something about the Australian landscape that's prime for horror. As evidenced just this year with the recent acclaimed thriller Hounds of Love, we ...

Pixar Ventures to the Land of the Dead in New Trailer for ‘Coco’

Pixar is once again releasing two features this year and following next week's Cars 3, this November will mark the return of Toy Story 3 direct Lee Unkrich ...

Review: ‘The Mummy’ Tosses Tom Cruise About, Earns Both Laughs and Scares

For about five minutes at the top of The Mummy, Tom Cruise gets to be Indiana Jones. Well, kind of. He's Nick Morton, a soldier of fortune less interested in ar...

Holly Hunter and Carrie Coon Lead First Trailer for ‘Strange Weather’

After making a brief impression in Terrence Malick's Song to Song and following a part in this summer's The Big Sick, Holly Hunter will take the lead in Str...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 245 – Wonder Woman

Is the newest film in the DCEU a thing of wonder, or is Patty Jenkins's new film another DC flop?...

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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