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First Poster for Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid Starring Joaquin Phoenix

After the one-two horror punch of Hereditary and Midsommar in 2018 and 2019, respectively, Ari Aster has taken a bit longer to craft his third feature. Now fin...

Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live? Set for Summer 2023 Release

2023 just got quite a bit better. After recent news that legendary director Hayao Miyazaki was putting the finishing touches on his first film in a decade, fol...

U.S. Trailer for Carla Simón’s Alcarràs, Berlinale Golden Bear Winner and Spain’s Oscar Entry

It's not often the year in cinema kicks off with one of the most acclaimed films of recent memory, but that will be the case in 2023. Carla Simón impressed us ...

Thessaloniki Review: Blitz Sci-Fi Film Lola Packs Schmaltz and Ambition

Andrew Legge's Lola, a faux found footage film that plays with historical and science fiction, gives weight to an emerging idea: could this be the best year fo...

Watch Steven Spielberg Talk to Martin Scorsese About How David Lynch Became John Ford

How's that for a headline? Considering it's been out for a month, if you've wanted to see Steven Spielberg's stellar autobiographical drama The Fabelmans, you'...

Emancipation Review: Will Smith Leads a Misguided and Fruitless Slavery Epic

“They don’t make the Gladiator/Braveheart-type movies anymore” is the kind of complaint you'll hear when talking about the state of popular cinema, specificall...

Skinamarink Trailer: Viral Horror Sensation is Here to Haunt Your Nightmares

If you've been on the internet the last few weeks, you've certainly heard of the horror thriller Skinamarink. Made for around just $15,000, Kyle Edward Ball's ...

The Best Documentaries of 2022

This history of Blaxploitation cinema, dispatches from the front lines of war, adventurous volcanologists, portraits of legendary artists, and a group of jacka...

NYC Weekend Watch: Shunji Iwai, Histoire(s) du cinéma, The Trial & More

Japan SocietyOne of Japan's great living directors, Shunji Iwai, is highlighted in "Love Letters," a four-film retrospective. Anthology Film ArchivesHistoir...

Léa Seydoux Leads Trailer for Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2

It's not quite the first time we've written about a video game, but it's surely the first I've felt so compelled. So's my compulsion with Hideo Kojima, that ra...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

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

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

Features

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

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

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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