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15 Films to See at the 60th New York Film Festival

This Friday, the 60th New York Film Festival kicks off its anniversary edition, which, in a fest first, will feature screenings in all five boroughs. Ahead of ...

The Greatest Beer Run Ever Review: Zac Efron is Out of Place in Peter Farrelly’s Plodding Vietnam War Comedy

Peter Farrelly’s career is a fascinating example of a director whose brand of cinema became completely out of vogue after following a major American political ...

Nina Menkes Unpacks the Male Gaze in the First Trailer for Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

After watching thousands of hours worth of cinema, what filmmaking techniques are ingrained to the form that lead to disempowering and objectifying women? Usin...

Aftersun Trailer: Charlotte Wells Examines Fatherhood in Stunning Directorial Debut

A directorial debut of staggeringly impressive form with a wallop of an ending, Charlotte Wells' Aftersun completely broke me. Following Paul Mescal and Franki...

Vesper Review: Atmospheric Dystopian Sci-Fi Searches for a Better World

It's the New Dark Ages and the world has devolved to mimic a YA novel's class system with the poor left to fend for themselves in desolate wastelands while the...

The Criterion Channel Unveil October Lineup: Vampires, Ishirō Honda, Songs for Drella, Tsai Ming-liang & More

Though their "'80s Horror" lineup would constitute enough of a Halloween push, the Criterion Channel enter October all guns blazing. The month's lineup also in...

Abel Ferrara on Padre Pio, Casting Shia LaBeouf, and His Upcoming Patti Smith Doc

Walk a few clicks from Venice's Palazzo del Cinema and you'll find the Hotel Excelsior, as grand a work of Moorish revival architecture as you can likely find ...

Ticket to Paradise Review: George Clooney and Julia Roberts Coast in Lazy Rom-Com

2022 has been the year of the big-screen romantic comedy resurgence. But while audiences may have been reminded of the joys of the high-concept, star-driven ge...

TIFF Review: Raymond & Ray Finds Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor Stuck in Bland Dramedy

There are types all over Rodrigo García’s Raymond & Ray. There’s Raymond (Ewan McGregor), the more stuck-up type who only wears business-casual. There’s Ra...

TIFF Review: John Hyams Delivers the First Good Pandemic Horror Movie with Sick

Horror movies, like documentaries, have a knack for rolling the cameras whenever tragedy strikes. It didn’t come as much of a surprise when, mere months after ...

News

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & 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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