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Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) Review: Directorial Debut Captures Bittersweet Longing

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) opens in theaters on September 12...

Rabbit Trap Review: Dev Patel Leads Wholly Immersive Horror Story

Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Sundance coverage. Rabbit Trap opens in theaters on September 12. It’s always thrilling when ...

TIFF Review: Claire Denis’ The Fence Takes an Unnerving Stare Into Darkness

Is the idea of a Claire Denis film changing? There was likely an image one formed in their head when that name emerged: elliptical, sexy, avant-garde. Yet rece...

Urchin Trailer: Harris Dickinson’s Riveting Directorial Debut Arrives This October

While the only thing more hit-or-miss than directorial debuts are directorial debuts from actors, one of the more accomplished in recent memory is Harris Dicki...

Where to Land Review: Hal Hartley Returns with Shaggy and Spellbinding Drama

“I’m done being a superhero.” An international movie star who’s become synonymous with her intergalactic onscreen persona in a wildly successful television...

“I Like Films That Are Quieter in Their Execution”: Sierra Falconer on Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)

Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) is the kind of small film you hope to discover at a festival. Written and directed by Sierra Falconer in her featur...

Mark Ruffalo to Star in Bertrand Bonello’s Next Feature

Update: Variety confirms Bonello will direct Ruffalo in Santo Subito!, which concerns Father Joseph Murolo, an American priest dispatched to the Vatican to act...

TIFF Review: Normal Gives Ben Wheatley and Bob Odenkirk a Suitable John Wick Spin

You might wonder if you're watching the wrong movie during the prologue to Ben Wheatley's Normal. The setting is Japan, three Yakuza are being reprimanded by t...

U.S. Trailer for Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower Obsesses Over Marion Cotillard

This being such a busy year for premieres, one is liable to forget the seven-months-gone debut of The Ice Tower. We nevertheless found it one of 2025's more no...

U.S. Trailer for Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague Writes History in Celluloid

Films about films will earn a reflexive grown from the cynical; a film about one of the 15-or-so most-influential films ever––while, for good measure, serving ...

News

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

Netflix Buys Warner Bros. for $82 Billion

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Trailers

Jean-Pierre Léaud Goes West In Exclusive Trailer for Luc Moullet’s A Girl Is a Gun

My Father’s Shadow Trailer: U.K.’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens This February

The President’s Cake Trailer: Iraq’s Oscar Entry and Cannes Winner Opens This February

Reviews

The Chronology of Water Review: Kristen Stewart’s Elemental Calling Card for Directorial Greatness

La Grazia Review: Paolo Sorrentino Struggles to Match Toni Servillo’s Talents

WTO/99 Review: A Stark Reminder of Our American Police State

Features

Posterized December 2025: Resurrection, No Other Choice, The Plague & More

New to Streaming: Jay Kelly, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, Stranger Eyes, The Family McMullen & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Safe & More

Interviews

Reflection in a Dead Diamond Directors on James Bond, Satoshi Kon, and Crafting a Cinematic Orgasm

Edward Burns on The Family McMullen, His Underseen Films, and Getting Tom Petty to Score His Second Movie

Sinners Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw on Pulling Off the Film’s Most Difficult Shots and Christopher Nolan’s Advice

Podcasts

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

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

Emulsion Ep. 18 – Carlo Chatrian on the Tokyo International Film Festival and Future of Cinema Culture

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