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Berlinale 2024 Lineup Features Olivier Assayas, Bruno Dumont, Mati Diop, Hong Sang-soo, Abderrahmane Sissako & More

Berlinale co-directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek are going out with a bang in their final year, with a lineup unveiled today featuring the latest ...

Slamdance Review: Citizen Weiner is a Smarmy, Unfunny Attempt at a Mockumentary

Start watching Citizen Weiner and you may find its subject, Zack Weiner, looks familiar. A brief opening montage provides a sampling of what’s to come in Danie...

Sundance Review: Sebastian is a Half-Cooked Character Study of a London Writer

There is plenty in Sebastian, written and directed by Mikko Mäkelä, that is provocative. It's a focused, often handsome piece of work. It's also never entirely...

Sundance Review: Saoirse Ronan Excels in The Outrun, an Unwavering Look at Addiction

Maybe the smartest decision made in The Outrun, directed by Nora Fingscheidt, is its fractured narrative device. Based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by A...

Sundance Review: Brief History of a Family is an Elegant Tale About the Chaos of Creation

Children often complain about not being able to choose their parents, but the opposite is true as well, and rarely explored in fiction with the elegance and pi...

Sundance Review: Girls State Is a Separate But Unequal Sequel Doc

One of the biggest hits at Sundance and winner of the festival’s U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize in 2020, Boys State was a rare window into teenage politics ...

Sundance Review: Good One Is a Tense, Carefully Observed Portrait of Crossed Boundaries

It’s been nearly two decades since Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy showed how the wilderness can be an open canvas to explore the breaking points of male friendship ...

Sundance Review: Union is a Quintessential Addition to Workers’ Cinema Canon

Amazon Labor Union (ALU) president Chris Smalls is not the star of the documentary Union. He is just one part of the congregation in Brett Story and Stephen Ma...

Sundance Review: Exhibiting Forgiveness is an Emotional Yet Overwrought Tale of Painful Reconciliation

“Your heavenly Father will forgive you if you forgive those who sin against you; but if you refuse to forgive them, he will not forgive you.” This gospel of Ma...

Sundance Review: Sugarcane Builds a Tapestry of Trauma

It's impossible to overstate the trauma that is explored throughout Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie's harrowing documentary on the sins of St...

News

A New Film by Hong Sangsoo and More Will Premiere at Berlinale 2026

Slamdance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Atom Egoyan and Alison McAlpine Discuss the Oscar-Contending Perfectly a Strangeness

Trailers

U.S. Trailer for Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 Captures a Moral Parable in Transylvania

Pillion Trailer: Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s BDSM Romance Arrives For Valentine’s Day

Sirāt Trailer: Oliver Laxe’s Desert Rave Thriller Arrives in February

Reviews

Sound of Falling Review: A Pyschosexual Fever Dream of Epic Scope

A Useful Ghost Review: A Peculiar, Humorous Paranormal Tale

Seeds Review: A Beautiful, Haunting Documentary about the Wisdom of Elders

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Lucia Senesi’s Top 10 Films of 2025

Eli Friedberg’s Top 10 First-Viewings of 2025

Interviews

“I’m Not Seeing America Doing the Best Films”: Rodrigo Teixeira on Supporting Brian De Palma, James Gray, and Contemporary World Cinema

“There Are So Many Black Stories That Are Not Duly Explored”: Seeds Director Brittany Shyne on Her Sundance-Winning Debut

“Every Single Day Was a Nightmare”: Annemarie Jacir on the Past and Present of Palestine 36

Podcasts

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

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