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First Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague Brings Cinema History to Life

After releasing two films last year with Hit Man and the rather-overlooked God Save Texas: Hometown Prison, the ever-prolific Richard Linklater returns in 2025...

The Criterion Collection’s August Lineup Includes an Edward Yang Double-Feature, Kon Ichikawa, Compensation & More

If Criterion's influence from the last 15-or-so years must distilled to one figure, a good candidate might be Edward Yang. The near-instant canonization of Yi ...

Leos Carax, Albert Serra, David Lowery, Alexander Payne & More Plan Next Features

Kicking things off with a small but enticing update, following last year's incredible cine-memoir It's Not Me, Leos Carax is finally prepping a 2026 shoot for ...

Bring Her Back Review: An Anxiety-Inducing Triumph of Horror

Horror movies explicitly tackling grief are hardly a recent development, but it’s difficult to argue against the fact that we’ve seen this theme exploited ...

New to Streaming: The Brutalist, The Wedding Banquet, Deaf President Now!, I’m Still Here & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

NYC Weekend Watch: Cymbeline, Malcolm X, Kira Muratova, Fury Road on 35mm & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Brooklyn Center for Theatre ResearchMichael Almereyda's Cymbeline screens on Friday with th...

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire Trailer: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s Striking Debut Arrives in June

A directorial debut as hypnotic as it is narratively destabilizing, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich was one of my favorite discoveries of last year's New York Film Fest...

Tsui Hark on Finding Peace in a World of Chaos

One of the key figures in Hong Kong cinema, Tsui Hark is a writer, actor, producer, and groundbreaking director. Born in Vietnam, he attended college in the US...

Cannes Review: Enzo is a Queer Coming-of-Age Tale Conveyed with Delicacy

The queer coming-of-age experience is one of great vulnerability: a young person must grapple with the realization they’re becoming different from both past se...

Love Review: A Truthful, Soothing Nordic Take on Romance

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Filmfest Hamburg coverage. Love opens in theaters on May 16. It takes confidence to name ...

News

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

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

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

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

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

Features

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

NYC Weekend Watch: Italian History, Universal Westerns, Black Cops & More

Posterized June 2026: Maddie’s Secret, The Furious, Drunken Noodles & 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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