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New U.S. Trailer for Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice Plots Revenge

Premiering to instant acclaim at Venice Film Festival earlier this fall, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice will now be coming to the U.S. for a New York Film Fe...

NYFF Review: Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai Poses Questions on Filmmaking Tensions

German director Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai attempts to play upon its title, focusing on the idea of misunderstanding. Gavagai, a made-up word popularized by philo...

Obex Trailer: Albert Birney’s Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Feature Constructs an Imaginative World

Following up the imaginative Strawberry Mansion with another DIY-style adventure, Albert Birney returned to Sundance Film Festival earlier this year with OBEX,...

Michael Mann’s Heat 2 Acquired By Amazon MGM; Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam Driver Among Rumored Cast

Update: Christian Bale is circling the film, Deadline reports, and Mann has said Heat 2 is expected to shoot in summer 2026. Read the original story below. ...

Christian Petzold’s Next Feature Will Follow “Political-Left Witches Who Are Killing Capitalists”; Bi Gan Offers Update on New Film

Christian Petzold's Miroirs No. 3 has arrived stateside and, on the occasion of its NYFF premiere, I had the pleasure of speaking to him yesterday morning. Our...

One Battle After Another Editor Andy Jurgensen on Cutting Paul Thomas Anderson’s Action-Comedy Epic

How do you make a 2.5-hour movie that feels like it flies by in a third of the time? Meet editor Andy Jurgensen, a long-time collaborator of Paul Thomas Anders...

Posterized October 2025: The Mastermind, It Was Just an Accident, Bugonia & More

Spooky season arrives with a lot more non-horror titles than horror ones. It shouldn’t be a surprise considering the genre has become a year-long celeb...

Orwell: 2+2=5 Review: A Succinct Warning for What’s Already Here

"From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned," George Orwell wrote in his 1946 essay "The Prevention of Literat...

The B-Side Ep. 168 – Philip Seymour Hoffman

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. ...

New to Streaming: John Carpenter, Edward Yang, Suspended Time, Twinless & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

News

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Exclusive Palestine 36 Poster and Clip: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Tells an Epic Tale of Resistance

Netflix Buys Warner Bros. for $82 Billion

Trailers

The Drama Trailer: Robert Pattinson and Zendaya’s Relationship Gets Rocky

Sound of Falling Trailer: Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Winner Arrives This January

Jean-Pierre Léaud Goes West In Exclusive Trailer for Luc Moullet’s A Girl Is a Gun

Reviews

Resurrection Review: A Triumph of Sheer Audacity and Exceptional Craft

Dead Man’s Wire Review: Gus Van Sant Offers a Good Time at the Movies

The President’s Cake Review: All the Ingredients of a Breakthrough Directorial Debut

Features

The Best Performances of 2025

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Read This: Making Quentin Tarantino’s Hollywood and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Roger Deakins Reflections & More

Interviews

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

A Magical Life: Train Dreams Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso on Capturing a Film of Memories

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

Emulsion Ep. 18 – Carlo Chatrian on the Tokyo International Film Festival and Future of Cinema Culture

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