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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...

Venice Review: Neo Sora’s Happyend Poignantly Explores our Responses to an Impending Future

“Something big is about to change,” is surely one ominous beginning for a debut fiction feature, but director Neo Sora knows how to calibrate the fine balance ...

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 ...

TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Could Use More Bite

Is there a point to a metaphor if a filmmaker does all the unpacking for you? That was my main takeaway from Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel...

TIFF Review: Ron Howard’s Eden Is an Ambitious Disappointment

On paper, there are few filmmakers who seem less-suited to the rigors of a project like Eden than Ron Howard. This is the grim story, after all, of real-life i...

TIFF Review: On Swift Horses Is an Endearing Melodrama With an Alluring Ensemble

It's been some time since we've had such a ridiculously attractive lineup of buzzworthy young actors as the quartet starring in Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horse...

News

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Film Stage’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

New to Streaming: A Different Man, The Outrun, My Old Ass, Used Cars & More

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

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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