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Godzilla Minus One Trailer Gives Monster-Sized Look at Toho-Produced Blockbuster

Since it first terrorized Tokyo in Ishirō Honda’s 1954 film, Godzilla has faced off against nearly every single kaiju known to man—Mothra, Ghidorah, Megalon, G...

Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg & Paul Thomas Anderson Share Their TCM Picks to Watch This September

Following David Zaslav's despicable gutting of Turner Classic Movies earlier this summer––one of many anti-art maneuvers the money-hungry Warner Bros. Discover...

Venice Review: In The Killer, David Fincher Does What He Does Best

Murderers abound in the cinema of David Fincher, yet up until now they've tended to operate on the margins (Se7en, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) or hardly a...

Venice Review: Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is a Passionate But Sometimes Off-Key Biopic

Bradley Cooper is undoubtedly feeling the Bern. There’s something very endearing about Cooper’s star persona, not least the fact that, of all modern Hollywood ...

Venice Review: Roman Polanski’s The Palace Goes Down Like a Curdled Cocktail

In The Palace, guests of a luxury hotel prepare to celebrate the turn of the millennium. The caviar is tasted. The fireworks are readied. Soon (you guessed it)...

Venice Review: Michael Mann’s Ferrari Finds Religion on the Racetrack

In Modena, everyone is losing––the football club, the women, the Ferraris. It’s the spring of 1957, and ex-racer-turned-entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver)...

Venice Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things is a Dense, Dizzying Showcase for Emma Stone

Bella Baxter––whose organic internal makeup I’ll leave to shocking reveal––was born an adult woman. The furiously beating heart of Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film,...

Venice Review: Hollywoodgate Examines What The U.S. Left in Afghanistan with Darkly Comic Results

If you witnessed the chaos unfold in Kabul airport two years ago, it probably won't come as much of a surprised to learn the US Army left a helicopter or two i...

NYC Weekend Watch: 70mm at the Paris, Paul Vecchiali, The Thin Red Line, ’60s Korea & More

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

Venice Review: Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a Heartfelt, Formally Audacious Ode to Storytelling

If the recent mushrooming of A.I. recreations and YouTube / TikTok parodies of Wes Anderson’s cinema serve any purpose, it’s to show that his ongoing allure is...

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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