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The Road to a Masterpiece: The Radical Cinema of Kijū Yoshida

There was a time when Japanese filmmaker Kijū Yoshida was a cinephile’s mark of exquisite taste. While not entirely obscure, his work has been less-discussed t...

Isabelle Huppert on How Every Performance Is Like Acting for the First Time

Isabelle Huppert is one of cinema's most fearless and compelling performers: she can be both powerfully raw and impenetrably composed at once. It is even more ...

Godzilla Minus One Review: A Sentimental, Scale-Shifting Kaiju Blockbuster

For much of Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus One, Toho Studios' 33rd film in the beloved kaiju franchise, the iconic monster exists as an abstraction. After a...

Elizabeth Olsen to Lead Todd Solondz’s Love Child, Shooting This Spring

Update: Charles Melton has joined the project, Screen Daily reports. Since 2016’s Wiener-Dog, Todd Solondz has been attempting to get his next feature Love ...

First Trailer for Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast Puts Léa Seydoux and George MacKay In a Centuries-Spanning Sci-Fi Tragedy

It's less a question if Bertrand Bonello's The Beast is a major mark on 2023 and more an issue of whether or not I'll ever, even at a microscopic level, manage...

Silent Night Review: John Woo Returns to Hollywood with a Generic Yuletide Revenge Tale

The opening minutes of Silent Night promise something fun. There’s Joel Kinnaman, dressed in a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer sweater, sprinting in super-slow-...

Pedro Costa on Needing Your Desire and the Stevie Wonder-Like Vision Fueling The Daughters of Fire

Rarely does a short generate interest like The Daughters of Fire, an ink-to-runtime ratio that could best be explained by its status as Pedro Costa's first pro...

The Best Directorial Debuts of 2023

Though we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices. It's why we venture to festi...

DOC NYC Review: Apolonia, Apolonia is a Meditative Exploration of Identity, Work, and Evolution

Following, in intimate detail, the making of an art star in her early days, Lea Glob’s Apolonia, Apolonia is a powerful meditation on art and evolution. At one...

The End We Start From Trailer: Jodie Comer Tries to Find Her Way Home in a Submerged London

While one of her 2023 features won't be coming out until 2024 as Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders got delayed while a new distributor came on board, another Jodie ...

News

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

Exclusive: New Restoration of Queer Drama By Hook or By Crook Acquired by Altered Innocence for Spring 2025 Release

Trailers

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

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

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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