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The Night of the 12th Review: A Commendable, Diet Zodiac Procedural

A dramatization of true events, The Night of the 12th mines a particular subgenre of the crime picture, the “Cold Case” (its own Bush-era CBS procedural). The ...

Cannes Review: Monster is a Thrilling Reminder of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Powers

Few stories are as gratifying as the narrative jigsaw. How to fool the viewer into believing one thing without lying about what happened? It’s difficult enough...

The Thief Collector Review: Retired Teachers Steal $160 Million Painting in Riveting Yet Overstuffed Documentary

The various facets of the art of the heist––from motivation to execution to life on the lam (or in detainment)––make it perennially ripe for high-stakes cinema...

Cannes Review: Amat Escalante Returns With Scattered Noir Lost in the Night

When Rigoberto Duplas, the worrying conceptual artist and antagonist of Amat Escalante's new film, tells Emiliano, our steadfast lead, that the cheap glass in ...

First Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon Moves Beyond the Still

A child conceived when Killers of the Flower Moon's first still debuted––that was May 10, 2021––could now walk, or at least waddle. It's a fine image, unambigu...

The B-Side – Billy Bob Thornton (with Nicholas Gray)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they ma...

Five Veterans Dig Up the Past in First Trailer for Ted Geoghegan’s Post-WWII Thriller Brooklyn 45

One of the highlights from this year's SXSW is arriving next month. Ted Geoghegan's Brooklyn 45, starring Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessend...

The Creator Trailer: John David Washington Battles A.I. in Gareth Edwards’ Sci-Fi Epic

In a tentpole landscape painfully barren of original stories, we've been long-anticipating Gareth Edwards' first original film since his debut Monsters. After ...

Cannes Review: Steve McQueen’s First Documentary Occupied City Forges Disparate Connections with the Horrific Past

New approaches to cinema are few and far between––as rare as a ticket to the lone Killers of the Flower Moon press screening at the 76th Cannes Film Festival––...

Exclusive Posters for Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Cannes Premiere Pictures of Ghosts Honors Cinemas of the Past

One of the great Brazilian directors working today, Kleber Mendonça Filho's recent epic Bacurau was unfortunately thwarted in its U.S. release, coming out as t...

News

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

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

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

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

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

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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