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First Trailer for Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths Finds Marianne Jean-Baptiste Searching for Happiness

Among the most-anticipated films on the fall festival circuit is the long-awaited return from Mike Leigh with Hard Truths. Marking a reunion with Secrets &...

Venice Review: Sarah Friedland’s Wonderfully Gentle Familiar Touch Heralds a New Voice

In a sunny kitchen in California, Ruth prepares a sandwich with the muscle memory that only a lifetime allows. Bread is toasted and left to cool; dill is picke...

Venice Review: Harmony Korine’s Baby Invasion Sets a New, Anxiety-Inducing Standard for Cinematic Absurdism

At last year's Venice Film Festival, Harmony Korine took a wild left-turn with Aggro Dr1ft, the first feature from his new production company EDGLRD. The myste...

Venice Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a Hollow, Stylized Vessel of a Film

Where’s the filth? I wrote down the question on page two of my notes, roughly about when Queer entered its second chapter, sending Lee (Daniel Craig) and his y...

Nightbitch Trailer: Amy Adams Undergoes a Canine Transformation

After taking a bit of a break, not appearing in a film since 2022's Disenchanted, Amy Adams is back in full force this fall, leading Marielle Heller's A Beauti...

Venice Review: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest Beautifully Renders the Past Present

An unnamed village, an unknown time; somewhere in Britain, sometime in the Late Middle Ages, something is about to end. Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest sees t...

Red Rooms Review: Nihilistic Thriller and Stealth Satire is an Unsettling Examination of True-Crime Obsession

Killers of the Flower Moon's epilogue felt like the last word on true crime: a director with several based-on-a-true-story tales to his name emerging from behi...

Venice Review: Justin Kurzel’s Crime Thriller The Order Is Aswim with Cliché But Nails Emotional Beats

It’s fall 1983 in the Pacific Northwest, a historical hotbed for white poverty and white-power mobilization. Flannels flow like wine, backcountry bowl cut-adja...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 547 – Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (with Jen Johans)

Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Jen Johans to discuss Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga – Chap...

Venice Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door Faces Death with a Light, Succinct Touch

In life and in cinema, Pedro Almodóvar likes to talk about death. When people aren't losing their faculties in his films––like going blind (Folle... folle... f...

News

Tilda Swinton Says The Room Next Door May Be Her Last Film as New Trailer Arrives

Martin Scorsese Praises I Saw the TV Glow, Reveals Plans for Next Films

First Look at Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love Featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson

Trailers

Pamela Anderson is The Last Showgirl in First Trailer for Gia Coppola’s Drama

Exclusive U.S. Trailer for Endless Summer Syndrome Unveils Provocative French Drama

Beatles ’64 Trailer: Martin Scorsese Captures the Band’s First Visit to America

Reviews

Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of Feeling

Gladiator II Review: Ridley Scott’s Sequel Bests Predecessor By Going Dumb

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Features

New to Streaming: Megalopolis, Rumours, Look Into My Eyes, An Almost Christmas Story, and More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

The Film Stage’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Interviews

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

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

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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