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Cannes Review: ‘In the Fade’ is a Compelling Socio-Political Revenge Thriller

Fatih Akin sends a cumbersome bull into the socio-political china shop of present-day Germany, and all its racial and social divides, with In the Fade, a compel...

Review: ‘Drone’ is an Exploitative and Haphazard Thriller

The pitch “after a drone bombing in Pakistan, a Pakistani man flies to America to seek vengeance on the operator of the drone and his family with a bomb in his ...

New to Streaming: ‘John Wick: Chapter 2,’ ‘Raw,’ ‘David Lynch: The Art Life,’ and More

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

NYC Weekend Watch: Marlene Dietrich, Marcello Mastroianni, ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ & More

All the best films screening in NYC this weekend....

Diane Kruger is Out for Blood in First Trailer for Fatih Akin’s ‘In the Fade’

Diane Kruger is out for blood in In The Fade, the new drama from Fatih Akin which will debut this week at The Cannes Film Festival. Kruger, in what will rem...

The Greatest Monster Movies of All-Time

The monster movie represents one of the most enduring genres in cinema, a versatile formula for exploring the horrors of the unknown....

‘Waitress’: A Portrait of Motherhood with Rare and Refreshing Depth

Writer/director Adrienne Shelley, before her life was tragically taken from her, presented women with a gift....

Cannes Review: ‘A Gentle Creature’ is a Powerful, Bloated Odyssey

“Man is a wolf to his fellow man," quotes a character early in Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature. The ordeal suffered by its protagonist will indeed be solita...

Cannes Review: Hong Sang-soo Mixes Signature Ingredients for His Dry, Dense, Darkly Comic ‘The Day After’

Hindsight is a marvelous thing. To quote the lead character of a recent Hong Sang-soo film (and by recent we mean Claire’s Camera, the second of three the proli...

Cannes Review: ‘The Workshop’ is an Intense Return to Form for Laurent Cantet

Laurent Cantet has been a bit absent in the international cinema scene ever since winning the Palme d'Or for 2008's The Class. It's not for a lack of trying, of...

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

Will Poulter Navigates an American Crisis In First Trailer for Union County

Exclusive Trailer for Japan Cuts 2026 Highlights the Best of New Japanese Cinema

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Traverse Giallo Underworld In Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

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

NYC Weekend Watch: 70mm Conspiracies, Immigrants, Spectres, Sherman’s March & More

Posterized July 2026: The Samurai and the Prisoner, The Odyssey, Night Nurse & More

12 Films to See in July

Interviews

Ross McElwee on Remake and the Painful, Profound Process of Making a Testament to His Son’s Life

Tamra Davis on Billy Madison, Half Baked, Watching Fellini and Coppola on Set, Bonding with Britney Spears, and The Best Summer

“There’s No Incentive for a Filmmaker to Retire”: Alex Cox on Returning With Dead Souls

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

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