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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...

NYC Weekend Watch: Preston Sturges, Todd Solondz, Douglas Sirk & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumA Preston Sturges retrospective continues, with The Palm Beach Story, T...

Sundance Review: Scrapper is a Remarkably Assured Debut

It feels serendipitous that Scrapper, a somber slice-of-life British melodrama, screened at the Sundance Film Festival just days after hysterical reporting on ...

Sundance Review: The Accidental Getaway Driver is a Kidnapping Thriller That Works Best in Low Gear

The premise is simple; it promises a comical, stranger-than-fiction thrill-ride. Late at night, an elderly Vietnamese cab driver begrudgingly agrees to a routi...

Sundance Review: Against the Tide Examines Shifting Ideals in a Bombay Fishing Community

At first glance, the two friends in Against the Tide couldn’t be more different. Both Koli fishermen, their similarities seem to stop at the generality of thei...

The B-Side – Michelle Pfeiffer (with Veronica Fitzpatrick)

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in...

New to Streaming: TÁR, Happening, M3GAN, When You Finish Saving the World & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past r...

The Criterion Channel Announce February Lineup: Black History, Derek Jarman, Douglas Sirk, Yo La Tengo & More

February, marking both Black History Month and Valentine's Day, is the kind of stretch from which a programmer can mine plenty. Accordingly the Criterion Chann...

Sundance Review: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a Profoundly Stunning, Impressionistic Voyage of Time

Raven Jackson’s directorial debut All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a distillation of cinema to its purest form, a stunning patchwork of experience and memory. D...

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

New to Streaming: Queer, Close Your Eyes, A Different Man, Red Rooms & More

Eli Friedberg’s Top 10 First-Viewings of 2024

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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 – In Conversation with Julia Stiles on Her Directorial Debut Wish You Were Here

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

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

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