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Berlinale Review: Bas Devos’ Near-Perfect Here Might Be the Year’s Most Benevolent Film

For anyone keeping tabs on Bas Devos' career, it's notable that the drama of his latest film Here is set in motion by something as benign as a pot of soup. A c...

Berlinale Review: Jesse Eisenberg-Led Incel Cult Film Manodrome Offers Triggers and Taboos

In Manodrome, cinema's enduring love for frustrated male loners is brought, kicking and screaming, into the cold light of the present day. Set in an unnamed, c...

The Forger Review: A Tonally-Wrought WWII Tale Pitting Optimism Against Evil

There is a casual vibe to The Forger, written and directed by Maggie Peren, that reflects its hero's stubborn optimism in the face of very real danger. This in...

How to Blow Up a Pipeline Trailer: Daniel Goldhaber’s Tense TIFF Hit Arrives in April

If you saw Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool well over a month ago in theaters, you were greeted with the first trailer for Daniel Goldhaber's tense TIFF hit ...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future Takes a Magical Journey Through Chile

One of the most striking directorial debuts to come out Sundance Film Festival last year, Francisca Alegría's gorgeously haunting The Cow Who Sang a Song Into ...

15 Films to See in March

While at least half of the month's film-related discussion will, unfortunately, be consumed by the endless Oscar race chatter, we're here to cut through the no...

Berlinale Review: Under the Sky of Damascus Examines Female Solidarity in the Aftermath of War

Purchasing and shooting on celluloid film, especially in this age of closing processing labs, is expensive for large and smaller productions alike: the documen...

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre Review: A Mildly Diverting Spy Mystery from Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie’s trajectory from distinctive pop-auteur to journeyman director-for-hire has been fascinating to witness. Making his name in the late 'nineties'90s...

U.S. Trailer for Alice Winocour’s Revoir Paris, Featuring César-Winning Performance by Virginie Efira

While she had been working for two decades, Virginie Efira received much-deserved wider acclaim leading Benedetta and Sibyl a few years back. She returned to t...

Darren Aronofsky’s Pi Remastered for One-Day-Only IMAX Release on Pi Day, Of Course

Do you feel that? The final Oscar window voting is mere days away, which means distributors are pulling out all the stops to have their nominees gain a bit mor...

News

Amnesiascope and Rohmer Fits Present A Tale of Autumn on October 13 and 22

Jia Zhang-ke Reveals He’s Working on an AI Short Film

Daniel Day-Lewis Ends Retirement for Anemone Co-Written with and Directed By Son Ronan Day-Lewis

Trailers

U.S. Trailer for Payal Kapadia’s Dazzling Cannes Winner All We Imagine as Light

First Teaser for Sylvain Chomet’s First Film in 15 Years, The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point Trailer: Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Francesca Scorsese & More Ring in the Holiday

Reviews

BFI London Review: Blitz Is an Unabashedly Hopeful, Mainstream Work from Steve McQueen

NYFF Review: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire is a Bold Rethinking of Black Surrealism

NYFF Review: Việt and Nam is a Swooning, Stirring Slow Cinema Romance

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Samuel L. Jackson, Akerman-Duras, Compensation & More

Posterized October 2024: Rumours, Woman of the Hour, La Cocina & More

Interviews

“Shut Up, Shut Up, Listen”: Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow

It’s What’s Inside Director Greg Jardin on Manifesting Anxiety, Giallo Lighting, and the Road to Success

“I Made It So I Could Breathe”: Tarsem on Restoring The Fall, Distribution Woes, and the Next Chapter

Podcasts

The B-Side – Barbra Streisand (with Chris Feil)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 549 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (with Trace Sauveur)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 548 – Janet Planet (with George W. Myers)

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