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Sebastian Stan is Donald Trump in the First Trailer for The Apprentice

After some behind-the-scenes battles, Ali Abbasi's Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice will indeed see the light of day before this year's election. Premiering ...

Cinephile Game Night Returns to 62nd New York Film Festival

With the 62nd New York Film Festival just a few weeks away, one of my favorite moments between the movies is connecting with the dedicated, passionate, cinema-...

TIFF Review: Barry Keoghan Can’t Save the Thoroughly Unpleasant Bring Them Down

Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down is an endurance test with no payoff. Opening with a jarring car crash on a windy road in rural Ireland, the film soon adds...

TIFF Review: The Return Marks a Languid Reunion for Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

The true pits of '90s nostalgia are maybe here, as we’re in the year 2024 arriving at an attempt to hype an English Patient reunion. Yes, that’ll be music to t...

Venice Review: Neo Sora’s Happyend Poignantly Explores our Responses to an Impending Future

“Something big is about to change,” is surely one ominous beginning for a debut fiction feature, but director Neo Sora knows how to calibrate the fine balance ...

John Woo Will Direct Sparks’ Musical X Crucior

It's been long enough since Sparks revealed their Annette follow-up X Crucior that you're forgiven for thinking it might've been shelved. I talked to them abou...

4K Restoration Trailer for Tarsem Singh’s The Fall Reintroduces a Dazzling Journey

"What would've happened if Andrei Tarkovsky had made The Wizard of Oz," said David Fincher of Tarsem Singh's The Fall, a visually dazzling tale that perhaps wa...

TIFF Review: Pedro Páramo Marks a Lifeless Directorial Debut for Rodrigo Prieto

I haven’t read Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, but a glance via Google informs me it was a very important novel: a magical-realist text that influenced Latin Ameri...

TIFF Review: Under the Volcano Gives Form to the Purgatory of Survival in Times of Horror

They always knew a full-scale invasion of Ukraine could happen, but they held onto hope it wouldn't. How else could they enjoy a vacation abroad in the Canary ...

TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Could Use More Bite

Is there a point to a metaphor if a filmmaker does all the unpacking for you? That was my main takeaway from Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel...

News

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

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

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

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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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