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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...

NYFF Review: Late Fame Is a Towering Portrait of the Artist as a Newly Famous Man

“Klara remembered who she was. She pulled away from the window and she was a sculptor, although she didn't always believe it, an artist––she believed them some...

News

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Disclosure Day Trailer: Steven Spielberg Returns to Extraterrestrial Exploration

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

Reviews

The Voice of Hind Rajab Review: Kaouther Ben Hania Brings Questionable Palatability to the Genocide in Gaza

Avatar: Fire and Ash Review: James Cameron Gets His Hands Dirty

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

Features

The Best 2026 Films We’ve Already Seen

The Best Undistributed Films of 2025

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2025

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“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

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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