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Divinity Trailer: Steven Soderbergh Presents the Trippiest Film of the Year

Unless Taylor Swift's concert film truly surprises, we imagine the trippiest film to arrive this year will be landing on the same release date of October 13. E...

U.S. Trailer for The Delinquents Brings Cannes’ Beloved Crime Tale Stateside

Few titles from this year's Cannes were a bigger surprise than The Delinquents, a three-hour-plus Argentinian crime comedy with existentialist leanings. Word f...

TIFF Review: Dream Scenario is a Compelling High-Concept Satire Undone by Juvenile Instincts

The ever-evolving nature of fame and infamy gets examined in Dream Scenario, Kristoffer Borgli’s follow-up to his dark comedy Sick of Myself. It’s the Norwegia...

Wes Anderson Returns to the World of Roald Dahl in First Trailer for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Following his western sci-fi feature Asteroid City, we're getting a whole lot more Wes Anderson this year, specifically later this month on Netflix. His latest...

Remembering Every Night Review: A Soothing Cinematic Experience of Simple Pleasures

If, like me, you have a morbid fascination with the strangest conspiracies of the far right, chances are you’ve encountered protests around the concept of the ...

TIFF Review: Uproar is an Effective New Zealand Coming-of-Age Dramedy

Fitting in has never been easy for Josh Waaka (Julian Dennison) as a Brown young man in an almost all-white New Zealand Christian school. Things were easier fo...

TIFF Review: After the Fire Details the Fight Against a Broken Bureaucracy

There's no need for writer/director Mehdi Fikri to spend too much time on the tragic death of twenty-five-year-old Arab-Frenchman Karim itself. We already know...

TIFF Review: Wang Bing’s Youth (Spring) Hopes for a Better Future

Speaking about his underseen 1970 film British Sounds, Jean-Luc Godard said it was important that the bourgeois heard oppressive factory noise the working clas...

TIFF Review: Denis Côté’s Mademoiselle Kenopsia is a Strangely Effective Portrait of Monotony

This writer is not necessarily fond of Quebecois director Denis Côté's experiments, which oscillate between slow-cinema, documentary, and deeply unfunny deadpa...

TIFF Review: Ladj Ly’s Spiritual Sequel Les Indésirables Strives to Balance Anger and Entertainment

Ladj Ly not only wants to be the truth-teller of French cinema, but a director of exciting, dynamic action as well. His concentration on Paris' underprivileged...

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

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

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

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

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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