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The Promised Land Trailer: Mads Mikkelsen Leads Denmark’s Oscar Entry

After being in the awards conversation just a few years ago with Another Round, Mads Mikkelsen is back this year with Denmark's Oscar entry The Promised Land. ...

Cord Jefferson on How Hollywood Shuffle, Nicole Holofcener, and Noah Baumbach Inspired American Fiction

After working on series such as Succession and 2019’s Watchmen, Cord Jefferson has made his feature directorial debut with American Fiction, a s...

Benny Safdie Sets Solo Directing Effort with The Smashing Machine Starring Dwayne Johnson

Who was it who said ‘never tell me the odds’? And was it uttered in some distant galaxy’s asteroid hail, or just the butt of a colonoscopy joke? The great gamb...

The Best Performances of 2023

Our year-end coverage continues with a look at the best performances of 2023. Rather than divide categories into supporting or lead or by gender, we've written...

Out of Darkness Trailer: Stone Age Survival Thriller Arrives in February

Set 45,000 years ago, Andrew Cumming's directorial debut Out of Darkness follows six people searching for a home in a brutally inhospitable landscape, stalked ...

First Trailer for Alex Garland’s Civil War Presents a Near-Future, Divided America

After dividing audiences with Men, Alex Garland is back with what looks to be his most ambitious directorial outing yet. Civil War, which follows a divided, ne...

National Film Registry Adds Bamboozled, Terminator 2, 12 Years a Slave & More

Since 1989, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress has been accomplishing the important task of preserving films that “represent important cultu...

Disco Boy Trailer: Franz Rogowski is on the Run From the Past

Coming off one of the best performances of the year in Ira Sachs' Passages, Franz Rogowski will next be seen in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s stylish debut Disco Boy, w...

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Includes James Gray, Ava Gardner, and Cats

Catering directly to my interests, the Criterion Channel's January lineup boasts two of my favorite things: James Gray and cats. In the former case it's his fi...

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two Returns with New Trailer

Since it took Hollywood executives far too long to get their shit together and pay writers and actors what they deserve, a number of major 2023 films were dela...

News

Alice Winocour to Direct Angelina Jolie in Stitches

David Fincher’s Remastered Se7en Comes to IMAX to Kick Off 2025

Criterion Collection’s February 2025 Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Crossing Delancey & More

Trailers

Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott Clash in First Teaser for Bring Them Down

Tatsuya Nakadai Goes on Cold-Blooded Mission in Exclusive Trailer for New Restoration of Hideo Gosha’s Cash Calls Hell

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson Find Pleasure in New Trailer for Babygirl

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

Appreciating a Pioneer: Pittsburgh Celebrates Queer Local Filmmaker Roger Jacoby with World Premiere Restorations

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: The Limits of Control, Ealing Studios & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

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

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

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