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TIFF Review: David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers is a Frustratingly Contrived Affair

David Gordon Green’s career is one of the most unpredictable in Hollywood. Since his masterful and celebrated debut George Washington, he's not been shy about ...

TIFF Review: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Has One Yearning for Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60

“Can satire save the Republic?”— May 2017 cover story of The Atlantic featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump “Mad TV would have done a Barron Trump School ...

TIFF Review: The Quiet Ones Orchestrates a Thrilling Heist

When Kasper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) learns his brother-in-law wants him to speak with a Moroccan friend, he knows what that conversation will entail. It probabl...

TIFF Review: Flow Suggests Classic Disney By Way of Emmanuel Lubezki

Being a pet owner, depending on your personality, comes with a fair level of anxiety. For example: after leaving my apartment to go see the film I’m writing ab...

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: 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: 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 ...

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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