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Berlinale 2023 Lineup Includes New Films By Christian Petzold, Hong Sangsoo, Philippe Garrel & More

2023 truly begins taking shape with next month's Berlinale, which will run from February 16 to February 26 and feature more than a few of our most-anticipated ...

Slamdance Review: Waiting for the Light to Change is a Strong, Precise Debut Exploring Anxieties of Young Adulthood

The five characters in Linh Tran’s Waiting for the Light to Change come together in awkward fashion, some reuniting and others meeting for the first time at a ...

Sundance Review: Earth Mama Brings Abundant Grace to an Impossible Situation

Conceived with a remarkable amount of filmmaking confidence, Savanah Leaf’s directorial debut Earth Mama follows the trials and tribulations of a pregnant sing...

Sundance Review: The Starling Girl is a Well-Made, Telegraphed Drama About Breaking Away From Religion

Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl finds the first-time feature director treading well-worn terrain. Starring Eliza Scanlen and Lewis Pullman as Jem Starling an...

Sundance Review: Fremont Tells a Patient, Slight Tale of Loneliness in a New Land

In Fremont, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) is often alone. She lives in a small apartment in Fremont, California, commuting each day to her job in a fortune cookie f...

Sundance Review: A Still Small Voice Captures Good People Navigating Constant Crisis

At times shockingly personal, the documentary A Still Small Voice will sneak up on most viewers. It follows both Margaret "Mati" Engel, a chaplain-in-training ...

Slamdance Review: Onlookers Takes a Plodding Look at the Act of Spectating

As the title suggests, Kimi Takesue’s Onlookers concerns itself with the act of spectating. Filmed in Laos, the documentary takes a sparse approach to its subj...

Slamdance Review: New Religion is an Off-Kilter Slice of Cosmic Horror

It’s hard to watch Keishi Kondo’s New Religion and stop yourself from pointing out the influences all over it. There’s an abstract opening sequence that brings...

Sundance Review: Magazine Dreams Gives Jonathan Majors a Powerhouse Showcase in Repetitively Nihilistic Drama

How do you make people like you? How do you make people remember you? These are the Google search queries of Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors), a bodybuilder wi...

Sundance Review: Fair Play is a Gripping, Gleefully Absurd Erotic Thriller That Goes Off the Rails

Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) are madly in love. Engendering sex at every possible opportunity, their passion is a burning one and, after ...

News

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

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

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

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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