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First Trailer for Greg Jardin’s Sundance Hit It’s What’s Inside

One of the Sundance breakouts this year was Greg Jardin's directorial debut It's What's Inside. Starring Brittany O'Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood, N...

Amnesiascope Presents a Rarely Screened Maggie Cheung Film on Tuesday, September 17

When I started my blindfold series Amnesiascope I knew there'd come time to show a Maggie Cheung film. Probably this doesn't require much explanation: movie st...

TIFF Review: Alicia Vikander Steals the Show in the Sci-Fi Drama The Assessment

The “old world” is a wasteland. People still live there, but not for very long. Those in the “new world” live hundreds of years thanks to a drug that slows agi...

TIFF Review: Conclave is an Engaging Political Thriller Undone by Ridiculous Third Act Twists

The twisty political thriller Conclave wastes little time getting right into it: the Pope is dead, and after a three-week time jump, the world’s most powerful ...

TIFF Review: Relay Sets Riz Ahmed in a Kinetic Thriller

You always hear about whistleblowers––those who smuggle documentation for the benefit of the public out of corporations trying to make or save a buck at the ex...

TIFF Review: Heretic is a Chamber Piece of Subversions Exploring the Concept of God

Missionary work has always fascinated me. Not when it’s performed abroad as a means of indoctrinating people who might otherwise be unaware. I mean here, in Am...

Venice Review: Asif Kapadia’s 2073 Is a Mishandled, Dimwitted Look at the Foreboding Future

Asif Kapadia––the biographical documentary wiz behind contemporary classics like Senna and Amy––opens his semi-fictional film 2073 in a flurry of doc footage. ...

U.S. Trailer for Mati Diop’s Golden Bear-Winning Dahomey Gives Voice to Art

Arguably the most surprising Golden Bear winner in ages was Mati Diop's Dahomey, a documentary-of-sorts concerning royal treasures taken from the century-gone ...

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-...

News

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Film Stage’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

New to Streaming: A Different Man, The Outrun, My Old Ass, Used Cars & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

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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