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The 2025 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films, Reviewed

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Follow here this week. Below are the B...

First Trailer for On Swift Horses Sets Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter & More in ’50s Melodrama

Sporting quite the cast of up-and-coming talent, On Swift Horses, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, Diego Calva, and Sasha Calle premiere...

Exclusive Poster for Radu Jude’s Berlinale Premiere Kontinental ’25 Pays Homage to Roberto Rossellini

Coming after a major 2024 with the U.S. release of his blistering satire Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (which nabbed a spot in our...

The 2025 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films, Reviewed

Ahead of the Academy Awards, we’re reviewing every short film in each category: Animation, Documentary, and Live Action. Follow here this week. Below are the B...

Exclusive Trailer for Berlinale Premiere The Memory of Butterflies Explores Latin American History

Kicking off this week, the 2025 Berlinale features no shortage of exciting premieres. One on our radar is Peruvian filmmaker Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski's La memo...

The Friend Trailer: Naomi Watts Inherits Billy Murray’s Best Friend

The Room Next Door wasn’t the only Sigrid Nunez adaptation to premiere at fall festivals last year. David Siegel and Scott McGehee’s Montana Story follow-up Th...

“Institutions Have Collapsed”: Universal Language Team on Iranian Cinema, Individualism, and Canadian History

Universal Language could easily have overdosed on twee. Set in an alternate-universe Winnipeg where almost everyone is ethnically Iranian and speaks Farsi, it ...

First Look at Carla Simón’s Alcarràs Follow-Up Romería

Following her lovely, emotional first two features Summer 1993 and Alcarràs, Carla Simon recently shot the final part of her loose family trilogy with Romería....

Friendship Trailer: Tim Robinson is Obsessed with Paul Rudd

At long last, Tim Robinson is now a leading man. World-premiering at TIFF this past fall to much acclaim, Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship follows the I Think You S...

Rotterdam Review: Wind, Talk to Me is a Moving and Vivid Hybrid Study of Grief

The title isn’t an order; it’s a plea. Wind, Talk to Me, Stefan Djordjevic’s feature debut, began as a portrait of the director’s ailing mother, Negrica, a...

News

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

David Chase Sets LSD Film; New Updates on Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, David Lowery, and Sacha Baron Cohen Projects

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Barrio Triste Review: One of the Year’s Great Debuts

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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