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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...

TIFF Review: Victim Is a Beautifully Performed Morality Tale

There's a reason director Michal Blasko and screenwriter Jakub Medvecký wrote Irina (Vita Smachelyuk) and her son Igor (Gleb Kuchuk) as Ukrainian nationals. Vi...

TIFF Review: Until Branches Bend Elegantly Delivers a Crucial Message

Something is amiss with Robin (Grace Glowicki) and the quiet Canadian peach grove town of Montague. An invader has taken hold. It's wormed its way beneath the ...

New to Streaming: Jean-Luc Godard, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Speak No Evil & 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...

TIFF Review: What Comes Around is a Provocative, Twisty, and Heartrending Exploration of Double Standards

What Comes Around is a tricky film to talk about without massive spoilers unless, of course, the eventual marketing campaign decides divulging its secrets will...

The Criterion Collection Reveal December Lineup: The Velvet Underground, Michael Haneke Trilogy & More

And like that, Criterion's 2022 is in the bag. Their December titles, announced today, wind down a year perhaps best-defined by the company's ventures into 4K—...

Park Chan-wook Weaves a Romantic Mystery in U.S. Trailer for Decision to Leave

Marking his first feature film since 2016's The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook is finally returning this fall with Decision to Leave. The Best Director winner at C...

Venice Review: The Son Revels in Emotional Exploitation

Frenchman Florian Zeller began as a novelist in his early twenties, quickly moved into a bright career as a playwright and theater director, and now finds hims...

TIFF Review: The Wonder Tells an Undercooked, Underwhelming Tale

On paper, Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder sounds like a prime contender for awards season. It’s a period piece set in 19th-century Ireland, adapted from a book by...

TIFF Review: Prisoner’s Daughter Finds Brian Cox and Kate Beckinsale Attempting to Reconcile

Maxine (Kate Beckinsale) isn't having a good day. She's barely slept after working the nightshift cleaning the place where she used to pole dance and hopes to ...

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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