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‘The Bad Batch’ Assembles in First Trailer for Ana Lily Amirpour’s Dystopic Cannibal Western

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was one of our favorite debuts of its respective year, an impeccably photographed vampire tale that brought new blood to th...

Berlin Review: ‘Bright Nights’ Captures a Meditative, Unfulfilling Road Trip

As the ice flows thaw in the 24-hour daylight of a northern Norwegian summer, so too does the relationship of a father and son in Thomas Arslan’s Bright Nights,...

Berlin Review: Patricia Clarkson Gets Fierce in Sally Potter’s Uproarious, Stagey ‘The Party’

Liberalism will eat itself! At least according to The Party, that is, and we’re not just speaking figuratively. Indeed, at one point in Sally Potter’s new film ...

Berlin Review: ‘Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves’ is a Contemplative Epic

There's universality to Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie's Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves, even if it is very much a Québécois film. ...

Acclaimed SXSW-Bound Aussie Thriller ‘Hounds of Love’ Gets U.S. Teaser Trailer

One of our favorite films from last year's Venice Film Festival is making its way to the United States. Hounds of Love, a harrowing debut from Australian di...

Berlin Review: ‘God’s Own Country’ is a Bold, Heartfelt Queer Drama

British filmmakers have a recent habit of bringing about canonical additions to UK queer cinema with their debuts. Andrew Haigh’s heartbreaking romance Weekend ...

Scarlett Johansson is Reborn in New Trailer for ‘Ghost in the Shell’

“Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive,” Scarlett Johansson told Marie Clair...

Berlin Review: ‘Skins’ Resembles a Love Child Between John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar

With this visually and conceptually startling debut from Eduardo Casanova, the question of how John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar’s love child would fare as a film...

Berlin Review: Geoffrey Rush Shines in Stanley Tucci’s Elegant But Unambitious ‘Final Portrait’

Enough footage of Alberto Giacometti exists to suggest that Geoffrey Rush is quite uncanny as the renowned surrealist sculptor in Final Portrait, a depiction of...

Berlin Review: ‘Barrage’ is an Under-Powered Drama in Need of More Isabelle Huppert

You can never have too much Isabelle Huppert, but in Barrage, the legendary actress plays a supporting role that perhaps shows you can have too little. It’s a g...

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

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

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

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)

NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Guy Maddin, Vincente Minnelli, Law of Desire & More

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

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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