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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 ...

Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara, Claire Denis & More Remember Jean-Luc Godard

If the reverberations of Jean-Luc Godard's life should ring well after we're all gone, his passing could be nothing but seismic. As we revisit favorites, disco...

TIFF Review: The Blackening Throws Tropes and Stereotypes into a Horror-Comedy Blender

The original short directed by Chioke Nassor asked a group of Black friends to choose who among them was the "blackest" as a sacrifice to save the rest. Why? B...

TIFF Review: Margaret Qualley & Christopher Abbott Play Emotional Games in Intense, Absurd Sanctuary

How well do you know your regular sex worker? How well do they know you? What Hal (Christopher Abbott) and Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) share may have begun as a...

TIFF Review: Anna Kendrick Delivers the Best Performance of Her Career in Alice, Darling

Everything you need to know about Alice's (Anna Kendrick) state of mind concerning the abuse inflicted by her boyfriend Simon (Charlie Carrick) are the words "...

Vicky Krieps Reigns Supreme in U.S. Trailer for Corsage, Austria’s Oscar Entry

"I choose my characters quite intuitively, so there’s never a thought of, like, 'I need to play this character.' If it was down to that question I think I woul...

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

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

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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