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Cannes Review: ‘Lover for a Day’ is Intoxicating Work of Rare Clarity

Philippe Garrel, the 69-year-old veteran of the French New Wave, has produced a casual, bittersweet, and intoxicating study of relationships in flux starring hi...

Cannes Review: ‘The Square’ Hunts the Same Meaty Game as ‘Force Majeure’ and Further Twists the Knife

When it comes to satire, there are few easier targets than the world of contemporary art. “My 5-year-old could do that,” so goes the saying. This is not to indi...

Cannes Review: ‘Let the Sunshine In’ is a Perceptive Romantic Comedy from Claire Denis

Claire Denis may not be the first Francophone auteur expected to turn in a romantic comedy, and her latest will disappoint those expecting Nancy Meyers a Paris....

Montclair Review: ‘Bill Nye: Science Guy’ Takes Us Behind the Bow Tie

Bill Nye: Science Guy offers an intimate, behind the bow tie look at the eccentric and flawed star of the public television series he co-created with James McKe...

First Trailer for Takashi Miike’s 100th Film ‘Blade of the Immortal’

Takashi Miike is at Cannes for the premiere of his (100th!) new film Blade of the Immortal, a jidaigeki (period drama) action film based on the manga series...

Montclair Review: ‘Avenues’ is a Charming, Scrappy Debut By Michael Angarano

With a title that sounds a like a rehab facility, Michael Angarano’s Avenues is a spirited, micro-budget indie that recalls the New York City-based work of earl...

Cannes Review: ‘Jupiter’s Moon’ Floats Above Genre Conventions with Swagger and Social Conscience

The juxtaposition of supernatural thriller tropes and urgent socio-political issues in Kornél Mundruczó’s latest movie -- an original take on the superhero orig...

First Trailer for ‘City of Ghosts’ Captures the Fight for Freedom in Syria

After embedding himself on the U.S.-Mexico border to capture the harrowing drug war, Cartel Land director Matthew Heineman went to the other side of the wor...

New to Streaming: ‘Logan,’ ‘Good Morning,’ ‘The LEGO Batman Movie,’ ‘The Survivalist,’ and More

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

Review: ‘Everything, Everything’ Crashes Under Its Own Self-Seriousness

Perhaps there’s nothing worse than a film with a campy premise that takes itself too seriously. Everything, Everything takes it title from a spoiler alert its l...

News

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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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