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TIFF Review: Raoul Peck’s Silver Dollar Road is an Intimate Family Portrait That Extrapolates America’s History of Discrimination

If Raoul Peck’s previous two films––the sweeping essay documentary I Am Not Your Negro and the painterly authorial portrait The Young Karl Marx––set aims to na...

TIFF Review: North Star is a Likable Yet Formulaic Directorial Debut for Kristin Scott Thomas

They say, "Write what you know." So Kristin Scott Thomas does with her directorial debut North Star. Co-written by John Micklethwait, the film centers on three...

TIFF Review: Lost Ladies Brings Infectious Humor to a Believably Absurd Scenario

When Phool (Nitanshi Goel) almost trips while rushing to the train station to accompany husband Deepak (Sparsh Shrivastava) to her new home because of the veil...

TIFF Review: Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron is a Wistful Tale of Spectacular Animation

I was thinking about my motherI was thinking about what’s mineI was living my life like a HollywoodBut I was dying, dying on the vine –– John Cale It was...

Venice Review: Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance is a Fleet Investigation of Crimes and Misdemeanors

Tempting though it is to pen this review in the voice and style of Mort Rifkin, the most indelible Woody Allen character in years, the embattled New York-born ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Sembène, Sorcerer, The Battle of Chile, Dennis Hopper & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumAn essential retrospective of Ousmane Sembène, featuring 35mm prints and new rest...

New to Streaming: The Adults, Birth/Rebirth, Desperate Souls, Amanda & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

TIFF Review: Copa 71 Resurrects a Forgotten Landmark in Women’s Soccer

It’s one thing to ask a casual soccer fan if they've ever heard of the 1971 Women’s World Cup and hear a “No.” It’s another to get the same response from two-t...

Terrence Malick, Cate Blanchett, and Jonny Greenwood Collaborate on New Interactive Exhibit Premiering in Australia

While Terrence Malick happily toils away on year five of editing his Biblical epic The Way of the Wind, he's found a number of artistic diversions in recent ye...

TIFF Review: Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel is a Tense but Flawed Outback Thriller

Pete Gleeson’s 2016 documentary Hotel Coolgardie came and went on the festival circuit, but it made a strong impression on those who caught it. Following two y...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

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

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

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

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