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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-...

TIFF Review: Barry Keoghan Can’t Save the Thoroughly Unpleasant Bring Them Down

Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down is an endurance test with no payoff. Opening with a jarring car crash on a windy road in rural Ireland, the film soon adds...

TIFF Review: The Return Marks a Languid Reunion for Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

The true pits of '90s nostalgia are maybe here, as we’re in the year 2024 arriving at an attempt to hype an English Patient reunion. Yes, that’ll be music to t...

John Woo Will Direct Sparks’ Musical X Crucior

It's been long enough since Sparks revealed their Annette follow-up X Crucior that you're forgiven for thinking it might've been shelved. I talked to them abou...

4K Restoration Trailer for Tarsem Singh’s The Fall Reintroduces a Dazzling Journey

"What would've happened if Andrei Tarkovsky had made The Wizard of Oz," said David Fincher of Tarsem Singh's The Fall, a visually dazzling tale that perhaps wa...

TIFF Review: Pedro Páramo Marks a Lifeless Directorial Debut for Rodrigo Prieto

I haven’t read Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, but a glance via Google informs me it was a very important novel: a magical-realist text that influenced Latin Ameri...

TIFF Review: Under the Volcano Gives Form to the Purgatory of Survival in Times of Horror

They always knew a full-scale invasion of Ukraine could happen, but they held onto hope it wouldn't. How else could they enjoy a vacation abroad in the Canary ...

News

James Gray’s Paper Tiger Sets North American Premiere as Opening Night of the 64th New York Film Festival

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

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

The B-Sides of Christopher Nolan with Blake Howard

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

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