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TIFF Review: The Return Marks a Languid Reunion for Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche

The true pits of '90s nostalgia are maybe here, as we’re in the year 2024 arriving at an attempt to hype an English Patient reunion. Yes, that’ll be music to t...

Venice Review: Neo Sora’s Happyend Poignantly Explores our Responses to an Impending Future

“Something big is about to change,” is surely one ominous beginning for a debut fiction feature, but director Neo Sora knows how to calibrate the fine balance ...

John Woo Will Direct Sparks’ Musical X Crucior

It's been long enough since Sparks revealed their Annette follow-up X Crucior that you're forgiven for thinking it might've been shelved. I talked to them abou...

4K Restoration Trailer for Tarsem Singh’s The Fall Reintroduces a Dazzling Journey

"What would've happened if Andrei Tarkovsky had made The Wizard of Oz," said David Fincher of Tarsem Singh's The Fall, a visually dazzling tale that perhaps wa...

TIFF Review: Pedro Páramo Marks a Lifeless Directorial Debut for Rodrigo Prieto

I haven’t read Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, but a glance via Google informs me it was a very important novel: a magical-realist text that influenced Latin Ameri...

TIFF Review: Under the Volcano Gives Form to the Purgatory of Survival in Times of Horror

They always knew a full-scale invasion of Ukraine could happen, but they held onto hope it wouldn't. How else could they enjoy a vacation abroad in the Canary ...

TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Could Use More Bite

Is there a point to a metaphor if a filmmaker does all the unpacking for you? That was my main takeaway from Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel...

TIFF Review: Ron Howard’s Eden Is an Ambitious Disappointment

On paper, there are few filmmakers who seem less-suited to the rigors of a project like Eden than Ron Howard. This is the grim story, after all, of real-life i...

TIFF Review: On Swift Horses Is an Endearing Melodrama With an Alluring Ensemble

It's been some time since we've had such a ridiculously attractive lineup of buzzworthy young actors as the quartet starring in Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horse...

TIFF Review: The Fire Inside Is an Inspiring Sports Movie Coming at the Right Moment

It’s difficult to keep sending back 12-year-old Claressa Shields (Jazmin Headley) when she’s got more fight in her than any of the boys he’s training, but that...

News

Trailer for Palestine’s Oscar Entry From Ground Zero + Exclusive Poster Giveaway

MUBI’s December 2024 Lineup Includes Dahomey, Bird, The People’s Joker & More

No Other Land Announced as Winner of the 2024 Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

Trailers

Jacques Demy’s Masterpiece The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Gets New Trailer for 4K Restoration

DIG! XX Trailer: Ondi Timoner’s Cult Classic Rock Doc Gets Expanded Edition This January

Exclusive Trailer for Ben Petrie’s The Heirloom Introduces Acclaimed Rom-Com Psychodrama

Reviews

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Wicked: Part I Review: Wizard of Oz Prequel Is Stale as Blockbusters Can Be

Features

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Dirty Work, Shelley Duvall, Robert Frank & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Rodrigo Prieto on His Directorial Debut, Martin Scorsese’s Snubs, and Taylor Swift’s Feature Debut

Flow Director Gints Zilbalodis on Animating Animals, Allegories, and Cinema vs. Videogames

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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