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TIFF Review: No Bears Is a Curb Your Enthusiasm-Esque Act of Defiance By Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi’s career can now be split into two distinct sections: his work prior to an initial 2010 arrest amidst Iran’s Green Movement, and his creative resp...

TIFF Review: Hong Sangsoo’s Walk Up is Relaxing in its Languid Rhythms

If one thing of late really sets Hong Sang-soo apart, it’s his unglamorous depiction of the film director. Appropriate to the small-scale of his corpus, these ...

TIFF Review: All Quiet on the Western Front Sacrifices Brutality for Cliché

In a year and festival where Steven Spielberg releases a reflective film on his own life and relationship to cinema, it's understandable that we get a war film...

TIFF Review: Autobiography Explores the Power Struggle Between Military and Citizenry

General Purna (Arswendy Bening Swara) never had a son, so returning to his mansion to ready for a reelection campaign (the days of military dictatorship in Ind...

TIFF Review: Maya and the Wave Examines the Fight for Equality in a Male-Dominated Sport

At twenty-six years of age, Brazilian Maya Gabeira was at the top of her sport. A world champion. Winner of countless awards. On covers of magazines. And reppe...

TIFF Review: Blueback Takes a Lightweight Look at Bigger Issues

Australia’s answer to the 2022 Oscar Best Picture winner CODA is here. I’m only half-joking. Blueback is a bit better than the movie that most recently won Bes...

TIFF Review: Will-o’-the-Wisp is a Buoyant, Bittersweet Musical Comedy with a Lot on Its Mind

A hopeful and bittersweet plea for a better future, Joao Pedro Rodrigues’ 67-minute oddity Will-o’-the-Wisp covers three periods in the life of Alfredo, a “Pri...

NYC Weekend Watch: Terra Femme, Infernal Affairs, The Caan Film Festival & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Anthology Film Archives On Sunday, Courtney Stephens gives a live performance of her arc...

Speak No Evil Director Christian Tafdrup on Creating the Most Terrifying Film of the Year

Absent of jump scares, supernatural elements, and most clichés that come with horror, Christian Tafdrup's Speak No Evil is more interested in the ways as human...

TIFF Review: Free Money Doesn’t Do Justice to Its Subject

Everyone over the age of eighteen (those fifteen and older become eligible on their eighteenth birthday) will receive twenty-two dollars a month for twelve yea...

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

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

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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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