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Elaine May’s Crackpot, Starring Dakota Johnson and Sebastian Stan, Needs an Insurance Director to Move Ahead

After many years of radio silence on Elaine May's Crackpot, a comedy starring Dakota Johnson that was planned to be the 92-year-old filmmaker's fifth and final...

Carry-On Trailer: Jaume Collet-Serra Finally Returns to the B-Movie

After getting sucked into the Dwayne Johnson abyss of tentpole filmmaking, Jaume Collet-Serra is getting back to what he knows best: thrillingly calibrated B-m...

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Trailer: Aardman Animations Returns This Winter

While Aardman creations Wallace and Gromit have seen their universe expanded with Shaun the Sheep films and even videogames, they haven't been prominent in a p...

NYFF Review: Apocalypse in the Tropics is an Exposé of Brazil’s Politically Active Religious Right

Five years, the closest presidential election in Brazilian history, and one insurrection after her last examination of Brazil’s tumultuous socio-political sphe...

The Criterion Collection’s January Lineup Includes The Mother and the Whore, Akira Kurosawa, and Anthony Mann on 4K

It's October, which means Criterion's already thinking about 2025. Their new year auspiciously starts with a 4K UHD release of Jean Eustache's magnum opus The ...

The Best 2024 Fall Film Festival Premieres

While there's a few more fall film festivals popping up in the next month, the major ones are behind us, which means we have a strong sense of the films to hav...

BFI London Review: The Brothers Quay Find Stunning Textures In Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously controlled; balleti...

First Trailer for Andrea Arnold’s Bird Starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski

Returning to Cannes Film Festival with her first narrative feature in eight years, Andrea Arnold's coming-of-age fable Bird brought together Barry Keoghan, Fra...

NYFF Review: The Damned Flirts With Documentary and Reenactment in a Frigid Civil War Sojourn

Robert Minervini’s The Damned begins with two wolves tearing into a elk carcass, ripping off its fur and chewing its intestines. This isn’t a nature ...

Hamburg Review: Love Conjures a Truthful, Soothing Nordic Take on Romance

It takes confidence to name your film––simply and so very unspecifically––Love. Michael Haneke could get away with it for giving us the classic that is Amour. ...

News

MUBI’s January 2025 Lineup Includes Close Your Eyes, Pepe, Luca Guadagnino, Charli XCX & More

The Criterion Channel’s January 2025 Lineup Features David Bowie, Nicole Kidman, Sean Baker & More

Brady Corbet Reveals First Details for Next Film, Inspired by Horror and Westerns

Trailers

The Game Is Out of Joint In Trailer for Grand Theft Hamlet

Gazer Trailer: Paranoia Thriller and Cannes Selection Arrives This February

Exclusive: ’90s Sundance Gem Girls Town Gets 4K Restoration, Trailer, and Theatrical Release

Reviews

Endless Summer Syndrome Review: An Incest Drama With Depth

Carry-On Review: Jaume Collet-Serra Delivers A New Christmas Crime Classic

A Complete Unknown Review: James Mangold’s Biopic Falls Short of Bob Dylan’s Genius

Features

Lucia Senesi’s Top 10 Films of 2024

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Jordan Raup’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Interviews

Robert Eggers on Nosferatu, Jump Scares, and Making Vampires Terrifying Again

“A Good Cinematographer is Like an Alchemist”: Jarin Blaschke on Nosferatu and Lighting Darkness

Alessandro Nivola on The Brutalist, The Room Next Door, and the “Total Mayhem” of You Were Never Really Here

Podcasts

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000)

The B-Side – Ridley Scott (with Maria Lewis)

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