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TIFF Review: Sing Sing is an Emotionally Restorative Portrait of the Artistic Process

“We are here to become human again.” This is the mantra of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, founded in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a prison ju...

TIFF Review: Lukas Moodysson’s Together 99 is a Bittersweet, Bruising Reunion

The idyllic dream of leftist commune living, where resources and skills are shared for the greater good, needs a key ingredient to work: people. Two decades af...

TIFF Review: The Promised Land Showcases Mads Mikkelsen in a Light, Entertaining Piece of Historical Fiction

After his 2012 film A Royal Affair received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, Danish writer-director Nikolaj Arcel did what probably seemed l...

A Haunting in Venice Review: Kenneth Branagh Reaches Poirot Peak with His Best-Directed Work in Decades

A Haunting in Venice is both the best Kenneth Branagh film and the best Agatha Christie adaptation in decades. Adapted from the famed mystery writer's 1969 nov...

Exclusive Trailer for Jeremy Thomas Retrospective Brings Together Cronenberg, Glazer, Ôshima, Skolimowski, Bertolucci, Jarmusch & More

To celebrate the release of Mark Cousins' new documentary The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, a portrait of the Oscar-winning producer responsible for bringing to lif...

TIFF Review: Widow Clicquot Proves a Captivating, Exquisitely Told Biopic

The first thing we learn at the start of Thomas Napper's Widow Clicquot is that Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (Haley Bennett) loved her husband François (Tom...

TIFF Review: Thank You for Coming is a Jarring Indian Sex Comedy

When it seems that every Indian or Pakistani romance coming down the pike centers on the traditional patriarchal values of arranged marriages and dowry (even w...

TIFF Review: Seagrass is a Compelling Relationship Drama

Everything you need to know about Judith (Ally Maki) and Steve’s (Luke Roberts) marriage arrives during their first “share” at the summer retreat where they’ve...

TIFF Review: Sleep is a Formally Precise South Korean Thriller in Search of a True Pulse

Wes Craven understood, when conceiving A Nightmare on Elm Street, the creepiness of our sacred sleep time being invaded, and Adam McKay was similarly onto some...

NYC Weekend Watch: The Wild Bunch on 70mm, Sexy Beast, Lost in Translation & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Paris TheaterThe Paris has reopened with a new Dolby Atmos screen and a 70mm series featuri...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

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

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

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

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & More

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

“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

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

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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