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Bugonia Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Honors Korean Predecessor with a Potent Mix of Comedy and Horror

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. Bugonia opens in theaters on October 24. After dabbling in dystopian fantasy...

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Review: Great Performances Inside Stagnant Frames

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Telluride coverage. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere opens in theaters on October 24. The...

Shelby Oaks Review: Chris Stuckmann’s Debut is an Uninspired Horror Mishmash

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Fantasia coverage. Shelby Oaks opens in theaters on October 24. There’s been a bit of mystery...

Aftersun Director Charlotte Wells to Helm Debbie Harry Biopic

After directing not only the best debut of 2022, but the best film of that year, with the emotionally piercing, structurally captivating Aftersun, we've long a...

Cristian Mungiu on Fjörd, Family, Sebastian Stan, and the State of the World

For all the glories that Romanian cinema has enjoyed in the last quarter-century, 2026 has the potential to outshine them all. If one man will be responsible f...

Kelly Reichardt on The Mastermind: “Question Why You Want the Things You Want”

The characters in Kelly Reichardt’s films drift and wander. Her leads often work their way through the world, struggling against bad impulses and worse decisio...

Adam Driver Reveals Steven Sodebergh’s Cancelled Star Wars Movie

The stories of Star Wars' creation are nearly (sometimes more) compelling than the films themselves––personal ambition, institutional politics, and empires (th...

Restorations of Olivier Assayas’ Paris Awakens and A New Life Making North American Debut at BAM on November 4

Restorations and retrospectives are plentiful enough that it's hard to believe Oliver Assayas' early career bears no imprint on American film culture. While ce...

Mistress Dispeller Review: Subdued Doc Explores Saving Marriages in China

For as long as there have been relationships, there have also been affairs. It is perhaps one of the most durable narrative devices, so universal that just abo...

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: The Mighty Clint, Abel Ferrara, Reapprasing Ed Wood, Jonathan Demme & More

The world has long needed a memoir from Abel Ferrara, and now we’ve got one, along with smart studies of the lives and careers of Clint Eastwood, Jonathan Demm...

News

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Exclusive Palestine 36 Poster and Clip: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Tells an Epic Tale of Resistance

Netflix Buys Warner Bros. for $82 Billion

Trailers

A Major Restoration Arrives in Exclusive Trailer for Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly

Exclusive Trailer for Bertrand Bonello-Scored Europe’s New Faces Covers a Troubled Continent

The Drama Trailer: Robert Pattinson and Zendaya’s Relationship Gets Rocky

Reviews

Ella McCay Review: A Living Legend’s Final Word on Hope and Forgiveness

Goodbye June Review: Kate Winslet’s Directing Debut is a Well-Meaning Misfire

Resurrection Review: A Triumph of Sheer Audacity and Exceptional Craft

Features

The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2025

New to Streaming: The Mastermind, Afternoons of Solitude, Wake Up Dead Man, Die My Love, and More

The 50 Best 2025 Films You Might Have Missed

Interviews

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

A Magical Life: Train Dreams Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso on Capturing a Film of Memories

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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