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Lars von Trier Returns with First Trailer and Release Details for The Kingdom Exodus

Lars von Trier is back, and he's returning to his past for his latest project. The Kingdom Exodus, which marks the final installment of The Kingdom, premiered ...

Stars at Noon Trailer: Margaret Qualley & Joe Alwyn Get Steamy in Claire Denis’ Denis Johnson Adaptation

It's now evident that smaller-scale projects from Claire Denis that she completes while waiting for the larger-scale ones to get off the ground are more artist...

The Munsters Review: Rob Zombie Fashions a Wholly Personal Use of IP

It was hard to picture how Rob Zombie’s film adaptation of The Munsters might play. Would it be, say, a profanity-laden '70s period piece where Grandpa Munster...

TIFF Review: V/H/S/99 is a Fun Enough Rewind to the Dawn of Y2K

The inescapable problem at the core of any omnibus or anthology film with multiple cooks in the kitchen is, by all design, things will be uneven. Yet V/H/S/99 ...

U.S. Trailer for Holy Spider Brings a Brutal Vision of Modern Iran

Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abassi followed his one-of-a-kind, Oscar-nominated fantasy Border with Holy Spider, which earned lead actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi ho...

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...

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

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

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

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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