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Knock at the Cabin Review: Waiting for the End of the Movie

Though adapting Paul G. Tremblay’s The Cabin at the End of the World, M. Night Shyamalan’s newest film takes a different approach. Knock at the Cabin is an exe...

Sundance Review: Fantastic Machine Offers a Sprawling History of the Moving Image with a Too-Concise Lens

The history of film is filled with fascinating symmetries, with Edison’s early kinescopes like Fred Ott’s Sneeze and The Kiss resembling the kinds of stories f...

Sundance Review: Jamojaya is a Beautiful Yet Empty Father-Son Story

Jamojaya begins with a bang. In an interview, up-and-coming rapper James (Brian “Rich Brian” Imanuel) fires his father (Yayu A.W. Unru) as his manager. The sto...

Sundance Review: Rye Lane is a Wonderful British Rom-Com for the Modern Age

Early into Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane, the London-set romantic comedy shows a sense of newness. Using fisheye lenses, zooming close-ups, and integrated flas...

Trailer for Slamdance Winner Hannah Ha Ha Brings One of 2023’s Hidden Gems

It's of course common to overlook the Slamdance Film Festival, which boldly (nobly?) runs concurrent with a better-known, phonetically similar exhibition, but ...

The Integrity of Joseph Chambers Trailer: Robert Machoian & Clayne Crawford Return with Survivalist Tale

Reaching a wider audience with 2020's The Killing of Two Lovers, writer-director Robert Machoian and star Clayne Crawford are back with their follow-up, The In...

Rotterdam Review: Gagaland is a Boisterous, Screen-Infested Précis of Our Very Online Times

If a film could immortalize our screen-infested age, what would it look like? Restlessly playful and joyfully cacophonous, YuHan Teng’s Gagaland offers an eloq...

Sundance Review: A Little Prayer Deftly Sketches a Delicate Southern Family Drama

In the quiet, peaceful mornings that ease your way into writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s A Little Prayer, a woman belts out gospel songs that echo down the b...

Sundance Review: The Stroll is a Lively Look at the NYC History of Trans Sex Workers

A frank celebration of a pre-Giuliani New York, Kristen Lovell and Zachary Drucker's The Stroll explores a unique period from the inside. Lovell––an actress, a...

Sundance Review: Rotting in the Sun Relishes in Manufactured Mundanity

From its hilarious use of social media montages to the oversized white Telfar bag that seems to almost swallow one of its characters whole, Sebastián Silva’s R...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

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Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

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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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