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The Best Films from the 2022 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals

While we're in the middle of the fall festival season, with Telluride, Venice, and TIFF in the rearview, and NYFF, BFI London, and AFI Fest on the horizon, it'...

Moonage Daydream Director Brett Morgen on Meeting David Bowie and Capturing the Artist’s Spirit

Back in May, Moonage Daydream – the hypnotic, experimental documentary abstraction that encapsulates David Bowie’s life, art, and philosophy – blew the top off...

All That Breathes Trailer: Sundance & Cannes Winner is One of the Best Docs of 2022

The first film to ever win both the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema) at Sundance and the Best Documentary Prize at Cannes, Shaunak Sen's gentle, inspiring docum...

Venice Review: In Viaggio is a Fascinating Rorschach Test of the Pope

Following The Young Pope, The New Pope, and The Two Popes, the time has officially come for the Woke Pope. In Viaggio, Gianfranco Rosi’s fascinating Rorschach ...

Confess, Fletch Review: Jon Hamm Charms in Clever, Casual Mystery

Jon Hamm finally got the leading man role he deserved after Mad Men. It's a shame it took seven years. Regardless, Confess, Fletch is an absolute treat. Direct...

San Sebastian Review: Ulrich Seidl’s Controversial Sparta Examines Pedophilia with a Non-Judgmental View

Ulrich Seidl is a director of curiosities, of shabby characters, pursued with an uncompromising and sometimes unfashionable gaze. Yet Sparta arrives in competi...

TIFF Review: Sidney Maintains an Icon’s Sanitized Likability

With Sidney Poitier's own voice providing the narrative backbone to Reginald Hudlin's documentary Sidney, we get to rediscover just what a wonderful storytelle...

Casablanca Beats Review: Inspiring Musical Treads Familiar Territory Effectively

The subgenre of "ambitious outsider teacher who is determined to inspire a ragtag group of disenchanted students" is well-worn, to put it mildly. Yet when the ...

TIFF Review: Joyland is a Tasteful But Passionless Family Drama

Another example of a tasteful but passionless festival film, Saim Sadiq’s feature debut Joyland errs on the side of arch family drama when its most interesting...

To the Moon Review: A Violent, Surprising, and Reality-Blurring Psychological Thriller

"Malevolent" is the word Dennis (writer-director Scott Friend) uses to describe his estranged brother Roger (Will Brill). That's quite the adjective without co...

News

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

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

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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