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The Criterion Channel’s January 2025 Lineup Features David Bowie, Nicole Kidman, Sean Baker & More

January 2025 could mark a bleak month for very specific reasons, but in that month one can watch a nicely curated collection of David Bowie's best performances...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Pacino Remembers, Clinical Cronenberg, De Palma on De Palma & More

This is our final round-up before the end of 2024, and it’s a good one. There are plenty of gift ideas lurking here––some choices to enjoy during time off, too...

Enter an Expansive World in Exclusive U.S. Trailer and Poster for Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s Eat the Night

One of the most distinctly directed debut films of was Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel's strange sci-fi wonder Jessica Forever. Six years later, the duo fi...

Warfare Trailer: Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Capture the Horrors of Battle in Real-Time

Earlier this year, Civil War proved Alex Garland wasn't so much interested in the politics of a divided country, rather curious about the questions of morality...

Endless Summer Syndrome Review: An Incest Drama With Depth

In a much-clipped moment from his Criterion Closet video, philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek pulls a DVD copy of Louis Malle’s Murmur of the Heart ...

Brady Corbet Reveals First Details for Next Film, Inspired by Horror and Westerns

With just a week to go until Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, ranking quite highly on our best films of 2024, arrives in theaters, we're getting new details on wh...

The Criterion Collection’s March 2025 Lineup Includes Michael Mann, Alan Rudolph, and The Wages of Fear on 4K

It may have taken a half-century and well after he made films with any consistency, but Alan Rudolph is at last experiencing a verdant season. Just months sinc...

NYC Weekend Watch: Robert Siodmak, Marlon Brando, Tokyo! & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterThe noir titan Robert Siodmak is subject of a new retrospective. F...

Listen to Daniel Blumberg’s Soundtrack for Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist

More than undergirding one of 2024's biggest films––speaking for size, scale, length, awards prestige, print weight––Daniel Blumberg's The Brutalist soundtrack...

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

Happy Holidays from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in betwee...

News

The Criterion Collection’s April Lineup Features Point Blank, Monty Python, and John Singleton on 4K

A New Film by Hong Sangsoo and More Will Premiere at Berlinale 2026

Slamdance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

A Landmark of Brazilian Cinema is Restored in Exclusive Trailer for Carlos Diegues’ Bye Bye Brazil

Matt Johnson Travels Back to 2008 in Trailer for Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

U.S. Trailer for Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 Captures a Moral Parable in Transylvania

Reviews

All You Need Is Kill Review: Time-Loop Anime is a Visual Treat That Embraces Videogame Structure

Sound of Falling Review: A Pyschosexual Fever Dream of Epic Scope

A Useful Ghost Review: A Peculiar, Humorous Paranormal Tale

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Cockfighter, Last Days, Kevin Jerome Everson & More

New to Streaming: Rebuilding, The Rip, Licorice Pizza, Twinless & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“How Do I Keep Leonardo DiCaprio Safe?”: Breaking Down the Stunts of One Battle After Another

“I’m Not Seeing America Doing the Best Films”: Rodrigo Teixeira on Supporting Brian De Palma, James Gray, and Contemporary World Cinema

“There Are So Many Black Stories That Are Not Duly Explored”: Seeds Director Brittany Shyne on Her Sundance-Winning Debut

Podcasts

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

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