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Grand Tour Trailer: Miguel Gomes’ Mesmerizing Odyssey Arrives This March

Miguel Gomes, the Portuguese filmmaker behind The Tsugua Diaries, Arabian Nights, and Tabu, made his long-awaited return at last year's Cannes Film Festival wi...

Berlinale Review: All I Had Was Nothingness Perfectly Complements Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah

When reading Claude Lanzmann’s 2009 memoir The Patagonian Hare, director Guillaume Ribot was struck by insights into making the monumental Shoah. The book ...

Pet Shop Days Trailer: Olmo Schnabel’s Martin Scorsese-Backed Directorial Debut is Coming to Theaters This March

Premiering back at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Olmo Schnabel's directorial debut Pet Shop Days went on to play at Chicago International Festival, SXSW, and ...

Spike Lee Shares First Look at Highest 2 Lowest and Confirms Summer 2025 Release

Spike Lee's major year already kicked off in a big way at the Super Bowl with a tie-in to one of his most underappreciated films and now the filmmaker is finis...

Claire Denis Eyes Crime Drama The Soap Maker

Claire Denis, set to turn 79 this year, has not slowed in the least. As cameras roll on Cry of the Guards she's entered negotiations to direct The Soap Maker, ...

The Actor Trailer: André Holland-Led Noir Drama Arrives This March

After co-helming Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman, we’ve long anticipated Duke Johnson’s next feature The Actor. A decade since the filmmaker's last film, the dr...

Charles Burnett’s Landmark Masterpiece Killer of Sheep Gets New Theatrical Trailer for 4K Restoration

It was just last week we published an interview with the great Charles Burnett, whose 1999 drama The Annihilation of Fish was finally resurrected and is now ro...

First Trailer for Michael Shannon’s Directorial Debut Eric LaRue Starring Judy Greer and Alexander Skarsgård

After working with such directors as Werner Herzog, Sidney Lumet, William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson, Jeff Nichols, and many more, Michael Shan...

Berlinale Review: Yalla Parkour Paints a Resilient, Risk-Taking Portrait of Palestinian Life

As horrifying images and videos of Israel’s forced displacement and ethnic-cleansing in Gaza, now supported with even more tenacity on the part of the United S...

“Cinema Should Serve as a Doorway to the Transcendent”: Nino Martínez Sosa on Liborio

Through the story of the religious leader Papá Liborio, Nino Martínez Sosa’s 2021 film Liborio deftly contends with the cultural, spiritual, and political forc...

News

Exclusive New Stills From Carla Simón’s Romería as Janus Films Sets June Release

MoMI Unveils First Look 2026 Lineup

Exclusive Poster for 2026 Edition of Los Angeles Festival of Movies, Taking Place April 9-12

Trailers

Heads or Tails Trailer: John C. Reilly Is Buffalo Bill in Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’ Cannes Selection

Rosebush Pruning Trailer: Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Elle Fanning, Tracy Letts & More Have Family Issues

David Robert Mitchell Returns in First Trailer for The End of Oak Street

Reviews

Kontinental ’25 Review: Radu Jude Has Nothing Left To Prove

Chime Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Mid-Length Chiller Doesn’t Stay Long But Leaves Its Mark

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office Review: An Illuminating Work of Cultural Archaeology

Features

New to Streaming: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Sirāt, Send Help, A Poet & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Béla Tarr, Meiko Kaji, Kiyoshi Kurosawa & More

Interviews

Sinking into the Abyss: Nadav Lapid on Yes, the Collapse of Morality, and Beauty in Dance

Sylvain Chomet on A Magnificent Life, Joker: Folie à Deux, and Returning to Triplets of Belleville

“The Movie Is More Intelligent Than I”: Christian Petzold on Miroirs No. 3

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Spike Lee

Gabe Klinger on Finishing Movies, Navigating Festivals, and Isabel

The Academy Award Categories That No Longer Exist

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