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Cannes Review: Carla Simón’s Romería is a Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Continuing in the low-key register of her Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Carla Simón returns with Romería, another tale of intergenerational dissonance. A film a...

Caught Stealing Trailer: Austin Butler Navigates ’90s NYC in Darren Aronofsky’s Crime Drama

Attempting to bounce back after his career nadir of The Whale, Darren Aronofsky has all the right ingredients for a much-needed energy boost. Led by Austin But...

Cannes Review: Peak Everything is a Romantic Dramedy That Finds Levity in the Anxieties of Societal Ills

While there’s the oft-repeated observation that every generation thinks they are living through the end of the world, the maelstrom of anxieties (both quotidia...

MUBI’s June 2025 Lineup Includes Twin Peaks, Việt and Nam, Gregg Araki & More

MUBI's June 2025 selections have arrived, featuring the previously announced mammoth drop of David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks: Season 1 & 2 and Twin...

4K Restoration Trailer for Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse Explores the Tumultuous Making of Francis Ford Coppola’s War Epic

It was just a week ago that we got news that Mike Figgis' documentary Megadoc, exploring the making of Francis Ford Coppola's decades-in-the-works passion proj...

Lee Chang-dong Plans Fall Shoot for Next Film Possible Love

Update: Netflix has acquired the film, which "centers on two couples whose vastly different lifestyles create unexpected intersections, leading to disruptions ...

First Teaser Trailer for Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, Set for October 2025 Release

Set for a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today, Alpha provides Julia Ducournau the unenviable task of following 2021's Palme d'Or winner Titane. St...

The Coen Brothers Will Reunite, When the Time is Right

The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Ethan Coen will have the distinction of capping off the year's finest in cinema with a midnight premiere (this Friday...

Dogma 25 Movement Launches 30 Years After Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95

It's now been 30 years since Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg launched the Dogme 95 movement, featuring a set of stripped-down filmmaking rules to put powe...

Cannes Review: Drunken Noodles is a Sultry and Strangely Calming Drama

The laws of time and space are met with frisky ambivalence in Drunken Noodles, Lucio Castro’s anticipated third feature and surely the hottest title in this ye...

News

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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