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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...

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...

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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