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Anselm Review: Wim Wenders Returns to 3D in Contemplative, Spare Portrait of an Artist

A meditation on the work of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders' concise, spare 3D documentary Anselm allows us to spend time in the presenc...

Brooke Adams on the Enduring Beauty of Days of Heaven and Terrence Malick’s Method

Among the most enduring films––not only from the furtive creative period of the 1970s, but all of cinema history––Terrence Malick's second feature Days of Heav...

U.S. Trailer for Chile’s Oscar Submission The Settlers Shows Beauty and Brutality on the Western Front

Felipe Gálvez's The Settlers has carved a strong path: the western nabbed a MUBI acquisition on the heels of its Cannes premiere, earned Un Certain Regard's FI...

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell Trailer: Phạm Thiên Ân’s Cannes Winner Arrives in January

One of the most shocking debut features I saw this year––in the sense that it was more accomplished than most other films of 2023––was that of Phạm Thiên Ân, w...

John Waters’ Top 10 Films of 2023 Includes Beau Is Afraid, Master Gardener, and Oppenheimer

One of our favorite traditions in best-of-the-year festivities is a lineup that tends to find a more interesting path than any guilds or critics groups. The wo...

Killers of the Flower Moon Sweeps the National Board of Review 2023 Winners

The National Board of Review has unveiled its 2023 award winners, led by Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, which picked up Best Film, Best Director...

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup

Providing our first glimpse at the next year in cinema, the 2024 Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of 82 films, eight episodic titles, and New Fro...

Anatomy of a Career: Sandra Hüller on Collaborating with Justine Triet and Jonathan Glazer

With her starring turns in two of the year’s most audacious films, Sandra Hüller has cemented her place as Europe’s leading––and perhaps most fearless––actress...

The Best Cinematography of 2023

"A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark...

Thessaloniki Review: The Animal Kingdom is an Uneven Beast of a Sci-Tale

In The Animal Kingdom, an Un Certain Regard-selected science-fiction romp from France, human-animal mutations are the new norm. Director Thomas Cailley begins ...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

Trailers

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Reviews

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

Features

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

Interviews

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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