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Sundance Review: Spiritual and Physical Worlds Intertwine in Sorcery

Christopher Murray's Sorcery asks timeless questions about the meaning of justice in a world where the oppressed are tried in courts set up by their oppressors...

Sundance Review: Drift Sets Cynthia Erivo in a Hollow, Generalized Refugee Tale

Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s English-language debut follows a West African refugee, Jacqueline (Cynthia Erivo), who washes up on a Greek island homeless...

Sundance Review: L’immensità is a Trans Coming-of-Age Tale Told with Melancholy and Profound Love

In films like Volver, Parallel Mothers, Everybody Knows, and now L’immensità, Penélope Cruz has cornered the market on playing mother figures that are both lar...

Sight and Sound Unveils Expanded List of the 250 Greatest Films of All-Time

After last month kicked off with Sight and Sound unveiling of their once-in-a-decade greatest films of all-time poll, detailing the 100 films that made the cut...

Sundance Review: King Coal is a Soulful Requiem for the Middle-Class Dream in Appalachia

A poetic ode to the blue ridges of Central Appalachia, King Coal often evokes an IMAX educational film in its scope, space, and presence. The film explores the...

Sundance Review: Shortcomings is Good at Being Grating

Without Justin Hong-Kee Min, Shortcomings would be sour to watch. His character, Ben, floats through Randall Park’s directorial debut with a mountain of unlika...

Sundance Review: Polite Society Pops Until It Wears Out Its Welcome

Polite Society, written and directed by Nida Manzoor, moves like a supersonic jet. That's one of the best things about the picture. Telling the coming-of-age s...

Sundance Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything Remarkably Examines a Trailblazing Musician

Little Richard: I Am Everything is positively bursting with unforgettable anecdotes, so much so that choosing one standout is virtually impossible. So perhaps ...

Sundance Review: A Thousand and One Showcases Teyana Taylor as a Desperate Mother

In the beginning of A Thousand and One, the New York City streets are alive, detailed and humming with swagger. It’s 1993 and Inez struts through Brooklyn afte...

Sundance 2023 Winners Include A Thousand and One, Going to Mars, Scrapper & The Eternal Memory

While our Sundance Film Festival 2023 coverage continues to roll in, the respective juries at Park City have doled out their winners, with Grand Jury Prizes aw...

News

David Lynch Has Died at 78

Amnesiascope Presents Two Films from Japan’s Directors Company on January 30

Berlinale 2025 Adds Films by Bong Joon Ho, Ira Sachs, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese & More

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

Eli Friedberg’s Top 10 First-Viewings of 2024

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Jose Solís’ 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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