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Leos Carax’s Annette Follow-Up Lily May B to Shoot Next Year with Jenna Ortega

Do not adjust your sets or fear that you've lost consciousness. Marking one of the more intriguing director-actor pairings in God knows how long, Leos Carax ha...

Couture Trailer: Alice Winocour’s Angelina Jolie-Led Fashion Drama Arrives This June

Seemingly cornering the recent market on Hollywood star-driven, auteur-directed French productions after Olivier Assayas' The Wizard of the Kremlin last week, ...

Cannes Review: Red Rocks Is Bruno Dumont at His Most Uncharacteristically Gentle

Seen through a child’s eyes, the French Riviera suggests heaven on Earth. For the three at the heart of Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks—Geo (Kaylon Lancel), Manon (Lo...

Cannes Review: Sandra Wollner Meets the Moment With Sublime Everytime

In Everytime, a sun-dappled film about death and love that might be the best in Cannes this year, the terrible loss of a teenage girl’s life leaves her mot...

In the Grey Review: A Reflection on the Strange Career of Guy Ritchie

In the Grey, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, is a nifty bit of entertainment. Ninety minutes long before credits and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavil...

Cannes Review: Nicolas Winding Refn Makes an Underwhelming Return with Her Private Hell

Almost ten years to the day since The Neon Demon’s premiere, Nicolas Winding Refn returns to Cannes with Her Private Hell—a film wherein the Internet’s it girl...

Cannes Review: Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Is a Thunderous, Opulent Triumph

A soft upright piano playing “Amazing Grace” drapes in warmly over the opening image of Fjord: a powder-blue-hued glacial mountain towering over the gliste...

Cannes Review: Adèle Exarchopoulos Proves a Force of Nature in the Familiar Another Day

Garance (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is her name, and she’s proud of it: of being a feminist, a liberated woman, of having caring friends, loving family, and the most...

Exclusive Trailer for Bouchra Presents an Acclaimed, Personal Hybrid Animation

If Hollywood's animation offerings have been fairly stale of late, look no further than the independent-filmmaking side for one of the year's most inventive an...

Cannes Review: Double Freedom Is an Entrancing Homecoming of Sorts for Lisandro Alonso

One of the most pernicious tendencies in the way we talk about cinema is to reduce films to quantifiable objects—things that can be assessed in terms of ho...

News

The Criterion Collection’s October Lineup Features The Silence of the Lambs and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein on 4K, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Samuel Fuller

Locarno Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Eleanor Coppola’s Documentary on the Making of Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette Is Coming Soon

Trailers

Filipiñana Trailer: Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-Backed Sundance Winner Opens This August

Domhnall Gleeson Encounters a Strange Land In First Trailer for The Incomer

Tony Gilroy Returns in First Trailer for Behemoth!

Reviews

The Odyssey Review: Christopher Nolan’s Journey of Perpetual, Enervating Awe

The Kidnapping of Arabella Review: Offbeat Italian Road Trip Comedy

Night Nurse Review: A Perverse, Seductive Thriller

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: The Hole, Electronica, Gakuryu Ishii, Nicholas Ray & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

New to Streaming: The Furious, City Wide Fever, Amores Perros, Camp & More

Interviews

Tsai Ming-liang on the Personal Inspiration of The Hole, Constant Evolution, and His Next Films

“How Do You Make a Contemporary Erotic Thriller”: Georgia Bernstein on Night Nurse and Catherine Breillat

David Wain on the Hard Work of Making Dumb Jokes

Podcasts

Yasmina Tawil on Progamming Hou Hsiao-hsien, David Fincher, Tom Tykwer & More for BAM’s Electronica Series

The B-Sides of Julia Roberts with Joe Reid

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

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