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Luc Besson Creates New Worlds in Final Trailer for ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’

Luc Besson is looking to recapture that goofball Fifth Element charm with his latest sci-fi spectacle Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Adapted f...

Cannes Review: ‘The Beguiled’ is a Defiant and Sumptuous Genre Outing for Sofia Coppola

Cannon fire rumbles menacingly in the distance, but it’s human desire that might prove to be the greater threat after all in The Beguiled. Set to the backdrop o...

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....

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

American Doctor Trailer: Three Heroes Navigate the Medical Toll of the Genocide in Gaza

Buddy Teaser: Too Many Cooks Creator Casper Kelly Makes Feature Debut

Godzilla Minus Zero Teaser: Takashi Yamazaki’s Sequel Stomps Into Theaters This November

Reviews

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Remake Review: Ross McElwee’s Introspective Documentary Haunts with Humanity

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

15 Films to See at Japan Cuts 2026

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

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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