The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters
Looking for what to see in theaters? Our feature, updated weekly, highlights our top recommendations for films currently in theaters, from new releases to rest...
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Martin Scorsese on Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks: “It Cries Back to the End of the Westerns”
Whatever pedigree ought to be established as the sole film directed by Marlon Brando, One-Eyed Jacks spent so much time in obscure status and degraded states t...
“I Hate Her”: Zia Anger on the Thorny Self-Portrait My First Film
Zia Anger's name has not broken into the mainstream; it's instead been a kind of totem for underground film artistry, to whatever extent that even exists anymo...
The Telluride Film Festival’s 2024 Lineup Includes Alfonso Cuarón, Guy Maddin, Alain Guiraudie & More
Unless you're a major studio or willing to pay for a rent-spiked ski lodge––and even then––few festivals ring more exclusive than Telluride, which has the dist...
The Falling Star Review: Jacques Tati-Esque Noir Falls Just Short of Absurdist Ambitions
What if Jacques Tati made a film noir? The Falling Star offers a commendable answer to this question, though the final result does not quite live up to such ex...
40 Films to See This Fall
With the summer movie season now quietly winding down, fall is upon us. As we do each year, after highlighting the best films offered thus far, we've set ...
First Trailer for Union Explores a Historic Battle Against Amazon
Premiering earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival, Union is the latest film from Brett Story (The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, The Hottest August) and Ste...
Across the River and Into the Trees Review: A Slight, Stoic, Skillful Hemingway Adaptation
In early 1950, Ernest Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees was serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine before being published as a novel in September of...
Caleb Landry Jones Leads First Trailer for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest
Returning almost a decade after her last feature Chevalier, Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari is back this year with Harvest, which is coming to Venice, TI...
Locarno Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a Shape-Shifting Thriller Where Iranian Protests Manifest in the Family Home
Here’s a film that asks, in the vein of another's title: did you wonder who fired the gun? Yet in Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which is set ...