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Fairyland Review: Scoot McNairy Gives His Greatest Performance

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2023 Sundance coverage. Fairyland arrives in theaters on October 3. Andrew Durham’s Fairyland feat...

Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is Coming to Theaters Nationwide This December

Cinephiles, rejoice. While there's no new Quentin Tarantino film on the horizon, a long-awaited holy grail of his filmography is finally getting a major releas...

38th Tokyo International Film Festival Announces Lineup; Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters to Make Japanese Premiere

Little last year was a greater pleasure than attending the Tokyo International Film Festival, which combines numerous world premieres with restorations and fir...

Pillion Trailer: Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling Submit to an Unlikely Romance

A romance unlike any other you'll see on screen this year, Harry Lighton's Pillion is as touching as it is shocking, exploring a dom-sub relationship within th...

15 Films to See in October

While it's hard for any film this year to follow in the shadow of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, October is a particularly stacked month per ...

U.S. Teaser for Bi Gan’s Resurrection, Opening December

One of Cannes' buzziest titles––and by our count, among its best––is coming sooner than expected. Janus Films have set a December 12 theatrical premiere for Bi...

Exclusive Trailer for Ben Rivers’ Bogancloch Finds Music in Nature

Two Years at Sea is far from the most likely film to get a sequel, yet Ben Rivers––who's just premiered a new-new project––returned to the Scottish musician Ja...

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die Review: Gore Verbinski Finally Returns with Refreshingly Madcap Adventure

I didn’t realize just how much I missed Gore Verbinski until I was in the theater watching the straight-up bonkers final act of his latest film, Good Luck, Hav...

NYFF Review: Anemone Marks a Breakout Debut and a Riveting Return for Daniel Day-Lewis

The first time Daniel Day-Lewis shows up in Anemone, he’s cloaked in shadow, sitting inside a small cabin in the middle of the North England wilderness. It...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul to Reteam With Tilda Swinton for Jengira’s Magnificent Dream

Following up his masterful Memoria, Apichatpong Weerasethakul revealed a few years ago that he was embarking on preparations for his next project, for which we...

News

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Exclusive Palestine 36 Poster and Clip: Palestine’s Oscar Entry Tells an Epic Tale of Resistance

Trailers

Disclosure Day Trailer: Steven Spielberg Returns to Extraterrestrial Exploration

A Major Restoration Arrives in Exclusive Trailer for Erich von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly

Exclusive Trailer for Bertrand Bonello-Scored Europe’s New Faces Covers a Troubled Continent

Reviews

Avatar: Fire and Ash Review: James Cameron Gets His Hands Dirty

Ella McCay Review: A Living Legend’s Final Word on Hope and Forgiveness

Goodbye June Review: Kate Winslet’s Directing Debut is a Well-Meaning Misfire

Features

The Best Undistributed Films of 2025

The Best Scores & Soundtracks of 2025

The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2025

Interviews

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

A Magical Life: Train Dreams Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso on Capturing a Film of Memories

Podcasts

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

The B-Side Ep. 172 – Daniel Craig (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side Ep. 171 – Richard Linklater (with Ryland Aldrich)

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