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SXSW Review: Eva Longoria’s Energetic Flamin’ Hot is a Surprisingly Fun Underdog Tale

Well-documented controversies over the accuracy of its story notwithstanding, Eva Longoria’s high-energy feature-directing debut Flamin' Hot is a classic under...

SXSW Review: Another Body is a Riveting, Upsetting Search for Justice for Victims of Deepfake Pornography

The legal principle of "another body" is cited by local and state law enforcement to not pursue charges against the creators of deepfake pornography, content e...

SXSW Review: With Love and a Major Organ is an Awkward Exploration of Loneliness in an Era of Total Digital Transformation

Set in an alternative world that at times seems like our own, With Love and a Major Organ can also feel as if someone asked ChatGPT to write a quirky postmoder...

SXSW Review: Mustache is Rebellious Yet Minor Coming-of-Age Tale

The feature debut of editor and short filmmaker Imran J. Khan, Mustache is a grounded coming-of-age story bursting with authenticity, even if the film feels at...

SXSW Review: Satan Wants You is a Mostly Compelling Dive into the Nonsense of “Satanic Panic”

One of the experts interviewed in Satan Wants You, a disturbingly compelling documentary making its world premiere at SXSW, points out that, today, the 1980s c...

Gregg Araki’s Cult Classic Returns in 4K Restoration Trailer for The Doom Generation

While Gregg Araki hasn't made a feature film in nearly a decade, since 2014's White Bird in a Blizzard, the director has kept busy on a number of high-profile ...

SXSW Review: National Anthem is a Personal Journey Into a Queer Rodeo Community

At the beginning of National Anthem, writer-director Luke Gilford’s exquisite-looking and subversive debut feature, 21-year-old Dylan (Charlie Plummer) lives a...

Champions Review: Bobby Farrelly Returns With Formulaically Dull Sports Movie

Bobby Farelly’s been out of the feature game for almost ten years. After a lucrative 20-year career writing, directing, and producing together, brothers Bobby ...

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Axelle Ropert’s Petite Solange Portrays a Family Fracturing

One of our favorite films on the festival circuit the last few years finally has distribution. Axelle Ropert's tender coming-of-age tale Petite Solange, which ...

Ken Loach Mines Solidarity in Exclusive Trailer for The Spirit of ’45

Whatever comes with being perhaps the most-recognized British director of his time, Ken Loach still hasn't seen every one of his films reach American shores. T...

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

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

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

Reviews

AFI Review: Vermiglio Paints a Lyrical Portrait of Desires Constrained by Catholicism

Paddington in Peru Review: Threequel Fails to Climb to Franchise Heights

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

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

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

“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

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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