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Something in the Dirt Trailer: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead Dig Up a Mind-Bending Journey

With their DYI approach to filmmaking, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's genre-tinged delights provided a grounded approach to the otherworldly. This is certa...

Park Chan-wook on Decision to Leave, Methodical Directing, and Not Being a Film Buff

Park Chan-wook sees himself first and foremost as a storyteller, and as such his films masterfully marry striking visuals with twisty narratives that befuddle ...

NYFF Review: Stonewalling Navigates the Malaise of China’s Youth

The ebbs and flows of a rather long, deliberately paced narrative can test most viewers. Especially difficult when it seems the movie’s central conflict doesn’...

BIFF Review: Lovely Jackson Provides a Visceral Reckoning with Wrongful Imprisonment

More than just a documentary detailing the circumstances surrounding Rickey Jackson's 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, Matt Waldeck's Lovely Jac...

The Fire That Took Her Review: Judy Malinowski Murder Case is Revisited in Heroic, Heartbreaking Doc

There are many reasons director Patricia E. Gillespie wanted to tell Judy Malinowski's story. The most crucial was a desire to ensure she wasn't forgotten. Tha...

U.S. Trailer for The Novelist’s Film Presents Hong Sangsoo’s Best In Years

Well, all right: the headline isn't 100% ironclad. Your mileage may vary on where the best of Hong Sangsoo's recent work—let's say the last five films instead ...

All That Breathes Announced as Recipient of Inaugural Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award

Indie Film Site Network (IFSN) has announced Shaunak Sen’s remarkable, essential documentary All That Breathes as the inaugural recipient of the IFSN Advocate ...

The Criterion Collection’s January 2023 Lineup: Bergman Island, Lars von Trier, Terry Gilliam & More

And lo a new year begins—or will in two-and-a-half months' time, which still won't stop Criterion from cracking the seal. 2023 (Christ) begins on a bang with B...

BFI London Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Might Be the Finest Adaptation Yet of the Carlo Collodi Classic

Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio is widely understood as an easily accessible coming-of-age metaphor—peeling back our childlike wonderment at the wo...

NYFF Review: “Sr.” is a Tender, Reflexive Portrait of the Downey Family

Robert Downey Sr.'s accolades and popularity pale in comparison to his son. While Downey Sr. focused on writing and directing underground cinema in the 1960s a...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

Trailers

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

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

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

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

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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