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Rebel Ridge Review: Jeremy Saulnier’s Ruthlessly Efficient Thriller Unleashes a Powder Keg of Rage

A ruthlessly efficient thriller fueled by boiling rage, Jeremy Saulnier’s Rebel Ridge wastes no time setting the stakes. Terry Richmond (Aaron Pierre) is liste...

Venice Review: Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements Both Reinvents and Justifies the Rock Doc

If the Hollywood superhero-industrial complex is perishing, the Rolling Stone and Spin magazine extended universe is hastily being built. What better defines “...

First Trailer for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths Finds Marianne Jean-Baptiste Searching for Happiness

Among the most-anticipated films on the fall festival circuit is the long-awaited return from Mike Leigh with Hard Truths. Marking a reunion with Secrets &...

Venice Review: Sarah Friedland’s Wonderfully Gentle Familiar Touch Heralds a New Voice

In a sunny kitchen in California, Ruth prepares a sandwich with the muscle memory that only a lifetime allows. Bread is toasted and left to cool; dill is picke...

Venice Review: Harmony Korine’s Baby Invasion Sets a New, Anxiety-Inducing Standard for Cinematic Absurdism

At last year's Venice Film Festival, Harmony Korine took a wild left-turn with Aggro Dr1ft, the first feature from his new production company EDGLRD. The myste...

Venice Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a Hollow, Stylized Vessel of a Film

Where’s the filth? I wrote down the question on page two of my notes, roughly about when Queer entered its second chapter, sending Lee (Daniel Craig) and his y...

Nightbitch Trailer: Amy Adams Undergoes a Canine Transformation

After taking a bit of a break, not appearing in a film since 2022's Disenchanted, Amy Adams is back in full force this fall, leading Marielle Heller's A Beauti...

Venice Review: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest Beautifully Renders the Past Present

An unnamed village, an unknown time; somewhere in Britain, sometime in the Late Middle Ages, something is about to end. Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest sees t...

Red Rooms Review: Nihilistic Thriller and Stealth Satire is an Unsettling Examination of True-Crime Obsession

Killers of the Flower Moon's epilogue felt like the last word on true crime: a director with several based-on-a-true-story tales to his name emerging from behi...

Venice Review: Justin Kurzel’s Crime Thriller The Order Is Aswim with Cliché But Nails Emotional Beats

It’s fall 1983 in the Pacific Northwest, a historical hotbed for white poverty and white-power mobilization. Flannels flow like wine, backcountry bowl cut-adja...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

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

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

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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