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Memoir of a Snail Trailer: Mary & Max Director Adam Elliot Returns With First Claymation Feature in 15 Years

Recently featured on our fall movie preview, Memoir of a Snail marks the long-awaited return to feature filmmaking from Adam Elliot, director of 2009's Mary &a...

New to Streaming: Trap, Lee Chang-dong, Kinds of Kindness, Napoleon: Director’s Cut & 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...

The Film Stage Show Bonus Ep. – Box Office Bonanza (January 14, 2005)

Welcome to a new episode from The Film Stage! It’s not The Film Stage Show. It’s not The B-Side! It’s something else! It’s a Box Office Bonanza from The Film S...

Venice Review: Pablo Larraín’s Sparse But Admirable Maria Paints a Tragic Portrait

After the detour of El Conde, Pablo Larraín returns with a study of opera singer Maria Callas, thus closing out a triptych of films on glamorous women, gilded ...

Martin Scorsese on Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks: “It Cries Back to the End of the Westerns”

Whatever pedigree ought to be established as the sole film directed by Marlon Brando, One-Eyed Jacks spent so much time in obscure status and degraded states t...

“I Hate Her”: Zia Anger on the Thorny Self-Portrait My First Film

Zia Anger's name has not broken into the mainstream; it's instead been a kind of totem for underground film artistry, to whatever extent that even exists anymo...

The Telluride Film Festival’s 2024 Lineup Includes Alfonso Cuarón, Guy Maddin, Alain Guiraudie & More

Unless you're a major studio or willing to pay for a rent-spiked ski lodge––and even then––few festivals ring more exclusive than Telluride, which has the dist...

The Falling Star Review: Jacques Tati-Esque Noir Falls Just Short of Absurdist Ambitions

What if Jacques Tati made a film noir? The Falling Star offers a commendable answer to this question, though the final result does not quite live up to such ex...

40 Films to See This Fall

With the summer movie season now quietly winding down, fall is upon us. As we do each year, after highlighting the best films offered thus far, we've set ...

First Trailer for Union Explores a Historic Battle Against Amazon

Premiering earlier this year at Sundance Film Festival, Union is the latest film from Brett Story (The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, The Hottest August) and Ste...

News

First Images From Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet Remake Starring Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Bowen Yang & More

Watch: Hoyte van Hoytema Follows Oppenheimer With Emotional New Volvo Short Film

Listen to Three Tracks from Daniel Blumberg’s Incredible Score for The Brutalist

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Ben Petrie’s The Heirloom Introduces Acclaimed Rom-Com Psychodrama

First Trailer for Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope Offers Up Romance in Naples

Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott Clash in First Teaser for Bring Them Down

Reviews

The Black Sea Review: A Dynamic Lead Performance Drives Familiar Fish-Out-of-Water Story

Thessaloniki Review: When the Light Breaks Showcases a Dawn-to-Dusk Tragedy with Raw Depth

Wicked: Part I Review: Wizard of Oz Prequel Is Stale as Blockbusters Can Be

Features

New to Streaming: Blitz, The Piano Lesson, Flipside, We Live in Time, Alien: Romulus & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Dirty Work, Shelley Duvall, Robert Frank & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Payal Kapadia on All We Imagine as Light, Impermanence, Magical Realism, and Trilogy Plans

Barry Keoghan on Young Fatherhood, Loving La La Land, and the Movement of Andrea Arnold’s Bird

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

Podcasts

The B-Side – Gwyneth Paltrow (with Cory Everett)

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

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