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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

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

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

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 Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

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

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

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

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

“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

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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