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First Trailer for ‘Wonder’ Starring Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, and Julia Roberts

With Wonder, author Stephen Chbosky returns to the director’s chair for the first time since he helmed the film adaptation of his novel The Perks of Being a...

Review: ‘The Women’s Balcony’ is an Intuitive Account of Fundamentalist Extremism

There's more to The Women's Balcony than the American marketing machine has thus far presented. Billed as a feel good comedy of communal spirit — and correctly ...

Review: ‘Baywatch’ Drowns in Easy Jokes and Lazy Plotting

Blame it on 21 Jump Street. In 2012, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller rebooted a silly, cult television series with a clever wink. It was a hit that spawned a h...

Cannes Review: ‘April’s Daughter’ Marks a High Point for Michel Franco

Michel Franco has built a reputation as an actor's director, with his films featuring no shortage of unforgettable lead performances. Tim Roth's creepy leading ...

Cannes Review: ’24 Frames’ is an Experimental Swan Song for Abbas Kiarostami

Cinema lost one of its pre-eminent pioneers when Abbas Kiarostami died on July 4, 2016. Over the course of his 46-year filmmaking career, the Iranian master nev...

Cannes Review: ‘A Ciambra’ Bends Social Realist Rules with Bracing, Unsentimental Drama

Director Jonas Carpignano returns with his first film since Mediterranea (which broke out from Cannes Critics' Week sidebar two years ago) to remind us that alp...

Cannes Review: ‘Godard Mon Amour’ Offers a Playful Pastiche on the Re-Radicalization of Jean-Luc Godard

It's more Pastiche du Godard than Histoire(s) du Godard in Michel Hazanavicius’ Godard Mon Amour and that’s not a bad thing. The director’s slight but surprisin...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 242 – Alien: Covenant

We talk about the newest film in the long-running Alien franchise, Alien: Covenant, directed by Ridley Scott....

Watch: Nicole Kidman Flosses and Colin Farrell Shows His Hair in First ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ Clips

Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer recently debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, where it proceeded to make an entire audience uncomfortable, as...

Cannes Review: ‘The Rider’ is a Beguiling Docudrama Set in the American Plains

What does a cowboy do when he can’t ride? Chloe Zhao’s absorbing South Dakota-set sophomore feature has its titular rider come to terms with such a fate, in a f...

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

The Criterion Collection Announces Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Set

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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

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Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Heron, I Love Boosters, Tuner, The Sheep Detectives & More

The Best Films of 2026 (So Far)

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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

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