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MUBI Unveils March 2023 Lineup

MUBI has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including an epic six-film series dedicated to the brand new restorations of the films of ...

Steven Spielberg Confirms Plans to Adapt Stanley Kubrick’s Unmade Napoleon Script

Later this year, Ridley Scott will release his David Scarpa-scripted, Joaquin Phoenix-led take on Napoleon Bonaparte for Apple TV+, but he's not the only major...

Renate Reinsve, Gael García Bernal, Matthias Schoenaerts, Riz Ahmed, Rachel Weisz & More Set New Films

Following up her breakthrough in The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve has steadily been adding new projects to her roster. The latest is Piero Messina...

Linoleum Review: Jim Gaffigan Faces an Existential Crisis in Heartfelt Sci-Fi Drama

If we lived in an alternate universe where Bill Nye never got his big break, relegated to shooting his lo-fi children’s show from his garage and submitting tap...

Berlinale Review: The Shadowless Tower is a Wistful, Engrossing Ode to Those Who Wander

Watching over Beijing’s Xicheng district is an enormous white pagoda, a relic of the Kublai Khan rule, so majestic and otherworldly in looks and stature it mig...

James Cameron Plans to Direct The Last Train From Hiroshima After Avatar 3

Update: Speaking with Deadline, James Cameron has reiterated plans to direct an "uncompromising theatrical film" based on both Charles R. Pellegrino's Last Tra...

Berlinale Review: Dustin Guy Defa and Michael Cera Reunite in The Adults, a Sibling Drama of Raw Emotion

Six years after directing his last feature, Dustin Guy Defa returns with The Adults, a film of complicated shared histories and gradually revealing inner lives...

The Quiet Girl Review: Ireland Oscar Nominee is a Delicately Dull Tale of the Pains of Childhood

A thoroughly dull if not totally unpleasant work of nicecore cinema, The Quiet Girl is the case of a film being easy to dismiss but hard to hate. Are the inten...

Gianfranco Rosi Takes a Holy Journey in First Trailer for In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis

Following his acclaimed trio of documentaries Sacro GRA, Fire at Sea, and Notturno, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi pivots a bit with next feature, this time ...

Berlinale Review: Sydney Sweeney Astounds in Tina Satter’s Fascinating Reality

A good conceit can go a long way. In 2017, a former U.S. Air Force member-turned-NSA translator named Reality Winner leaked a document to The Intercept exposin...

News

The Criterion Collection’s April Lineup Includes Anora, Chungking Express, and Ugetsu on 4K

Claire Denis’ The Cry of the Guards Finds New Lead with Mia McKenna-Bruce; Production Begins This Month

Long-Rare Films from John Woo, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark & More Acquired By Shout! Studios

Trailers

Jaume Collet-Serra Returns to Horror in First Trailer for The Woman in the Yard

Peter Weir’s Landmark of Australian Cinema Is Salvaged In Trailer for Picnic at Hanging Rock‘s 4K Release

Rounding Trailer: Ghostlight and Saint Frances Director Alex Thompson’s Psychological Thriller Arrives in February

Reviews

Wolf Man Review: Leigh Whannell’s Effective Reboot Scares Up Hereditary Horrors

Emmanuelle Review: Audrey Diwan Subverts an Erotic Classic to Compelling, Alienating Effect

Every Little Thing Review: A Sensitive Portrait of a Great Woman’s Dedication to Hummingbirds

Features

Jose Solís’ Top 10 Films of 2024

Luke Hicks’ Top 10 Films of 2024

Soham Gadre’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Interviews

The Brutalist Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic

Mike Leigh on Hard Truths, Losing Dick Pope, and the Duty of an Artist

“Cinema Could Be Grander”: Nickel Boys Director RaMell Ross on Perspectives, Contradictions, and True Intimacy

Podcasts

The B-Side – Al Pacino (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side – Jack Lemmon (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (July 21, 2000)

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