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Yorgos Lanthimos and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Take Top Venice Film Festival Prizes

With Venice Film Festival wrapping up after quite an epic year, Damien Chazelle's jury handed out their awards, giving the top prize to Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor ...

Venice Review: Society of the Snow is J.A. Bayona’s Most Humanist Film to Date

In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed deep in the Andes, en route to Chile. The 45 passengers included the Old Christian Rugby team, friends, and fam...

TIFF Review: Dicks: The Musical is a Satire of Pure Provocation

When God (Bowen Yang) sees two virile young men plowing women, selling gears, and telling everyone they know that they do both of those things better than anyo...

TIFF Review: Lesbian Cheerleader Drama Backspot is All Glitz, No Substance

If you’re looking for recent movies about the uniquely harrowing experience of female perfectionism, there’s the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana, Laure...

TIFF Review: Raoul Peck’s Silver Dollar Road is an Intimate Family Portrait That Extrapolates America’s History of Discrimination

If Raoul Peck’s previous two films––the sweeping essay documentary I Am Not Your Negro and the painterly authorial portrait The Young Karl Marx––set aims to na...

TIFF Review: Lost Ladies Brings Infectious Humor to a Believably Absurd Scenario

When Phool (Nitanshi Goel) almost trips while rushing to the train station to accompany husband Deepak (Sparsh Shrivastava) to her new home because of the veil...

TIFF Review: Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron is a Wistful Tale of Spectacular Animation

I was thinking about my motherI was thinking about what’s mineI was living my life like a HollywoodBut I was dying, dying on the vine –– John Cale It was...

Venice Review: Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance is a Fleet Investigation of Crimes and Misdemeanors

Tempting though it is to pen this review in the voice and style of Mort Rifkin, the most indelible Woody Allen character in years, the embattled New York-born ...

NYC Weekend Watch: Sembène, Sorcerer, The Battle of Chile, Dennis Hopper & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film ForumAn essential retrospective of Ousmane Sembène, featuring 35mm prints and new rest...

New to Streaming: The Adults, Birth/Rebirth, Desperate Souls, Amanda & 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...

News

The Criterion Channel’s January Lineup Features Paul Thomas Anderson, Kleber Mendoça Filho, Terence Stamp & More

The Criterion Collection’s March 2026 Lineup Features Killers of the Flower Moon on 4K

Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Tom Cruise Wants to Save Humanity in First Teaser for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger

Pedro Almodóvar Returns to Spain in First Trailer for Bitter Christmas

Jessica Chastain Begins a Dangerous Affair in First Trailer for Michel Franco’s Dreams

Reviews

Is This Thing On? Review: Bradley Cooper’s Gentle Film About Marital Strife

Marty Supreme Review: Timothée Chalamet Reaches a New Pinnacle in Josh Safdie’s Propulsive Drama

Cover-Up Review: The Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Features

New to Streaming: One Battle After Another, It Was Just an Accident, Song to Song, The Running Man & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Twin Peaks, Breezy, Gus Van Sant, Ken Jacobs & More

The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2026: Part Two

Interviews

“The Story is Told by Faces”: Darius Khondji on the Cinematography of Marty Supreme and His Prolific Year

“It’s a Mission: Impossible”: Bi Gan on the Long Journey and Long Takes of Resurrection

“We’re Terrible Esthetes”: Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley on Room Temperature, Home Haunts, and the Artist’s Life

Podcasts

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

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

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

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