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Berlin Review: ‘The Other Side of Hope’ is Brilliant and Beautiful With a Defiant Faith in Human Decency

What Kiarostami is to the front seats of a car and Bresson is to the prison, so Aki Kaurismäki is to the perennial mid-80s Helsinki; that dark pastel-colored no...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 227 – John Wick: Chapter 2

We briefly talk LEGO Batman before diving into John Wick 2 on the latest show....

Berlin Review: Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Spoor’ is Well-Meaning, Bland Eco-Infotainment

The worst choices for festival competition aren’t necessarily the worst films. Those which aim too high, go too far, try too hard often end up making a complete...

New Trailer For ‘Goon: Last of the Enforcers’ Spills Blood on Ice

Strap those hockey pads back on because the final Canadian trailer has landed for Goon: Last of the Enforcers, the follow-up to, you guessed it, Goon. After...

‘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 ...

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

New to Streaming: The Prisoner, Silent Friend, Obsession, Fiume o morte! & More

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

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

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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