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Sundance Review: Predators Examines the Moral Complexities of a Hit Reality Show

Filmmaker David Osit gives viewers a lot to wrestle with in Predators, his documentary about the reality show To Catch a Predator, which captured the zeitgeist...

New to Streaming: Sundance 2025, Sing Sing, Babygirl, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera & 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...

Frank Ocean Has Begun Shooting His Directorial Debut

If the four-year gap between Frank Ocean's debut studio album Channel Orange and his follow-ups Endless and Blonde felt long, it's now been over double the wai...

Sundance Review: Eva Victor’s Debut Sorry, Baby is a Singular Revelation

Agnes’ (Eva Victor) life is defined by a sense of stagnancy. Four years after completing grad school in rural New England, she’s living in the same house a...

Sundance Review: Train Dreams Captures a Small Life on a Big Scale

There is a moment in Train Dreams, directed by Clint Bentley, where a tree gracefully falls to the earth, surrounded by lush green. Particles explode from the ...

Sundance Review: Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day Blends Documentary with Performance to Consider the Artist’s Life

When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen Ginsburg, taken on December 18, 1974, it’s strikingly nonchalant. Ginsberg is standing on the sidewalk,...

The B-Side – Queen Latifah (with KT)

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. ...

Marcello Mio Review: Chiara Mastroianni Honors Her Father in Toothless Meta Satire

The infamous cover of New York Magazine’s December 2022 issue declared that Hollywood is in the middle of a “Nepo Baby Boom,” but this is hardly restricted to ...

M. Night Shyamalan Sets Jake Gyllenhaal-Led Romantic Thriller as Next Feature

Not long since Trap left us heralding the return of Josh Hartnett and dazzled by the music of Lady Raven, M. Night Shyamalan has set his next feature. Per Dead...

Sundance Review: All That’s Left of You is an Impactful Exploration of Decades of Palestinian Trauma

A sprawling, gripping drama that starts with the foundation of the state of Israel and the displacement of Palestinian families in Jaffa, then ends two yea...

News

Mamoru Oshii Expresses Hopes for Ghost in the Shell 3

The Criterion Collection’s June Lineup Features Mishima, Sorcerer, and Brazil on 4K

Leonardo DiCaprio Will Lead Martin Scorsese’s Home; Apple and Todd Field to Produce

Trailers

David Cronenberg Finds Connection After Death in New Trailer for The Shrouds

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Love Hotel Restores Shinji Somai’s Pinku Classic

Sex Work in 1970s Japan Gets the Spotlight in Exclusive Trailer for Noboru Tanaka’s Newly Restored The Oldest Profession

Reviews

Pet Shop Days Review: An Admirably Abrasive Film With a Blistering Hero at the Helm

The Actor Review: André Holland is Terrific in Duke Johnson’s Surreal Solo Directorial Debut

SXSW Review: Death of a Unicorn is a Mythical, Predictable Genre Mash-Up

Features

New to Streaming: I’m Still Here, All We Imagine as Light, Trap, Every Little Thing & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Scorsese Selects, Nightshift, Lou Ye & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Duke Johnson on Charlie Kaufman’s Advice and the Philosophies of Identity That Guide The Actor

Andrew Davis on His New Novel Disturbing the Bones, Remembering Gene Hackman, and the Difficulties of Trying to Get Movies Made Today

Philippe Lesage on Who by Fire, the Importance of Imperfection, and What TV Can Never Steal From Cinema

Podcasts

The B-Side – Amy Irving and Peter Riegert on Crossing Delancey

The Film Stage Presents Emulsion: Episode One

The B-Side – 2025 Oscars Special (with Joe Reid & Chris Feil)

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