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TIFF Review: Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel is a Tense but Flawed Outback Thriller

Pete Gleeson’s 2016 documentary Hotel Coolgardie came and went on the festival circuit, but it made a strong impression on those who caught it. Following two y...

Telluride Review: Saltburn is a Familiar, Fun Pop Thriller That Fails to Stick the Landing

It’s 2023 and the early 2000s are having a moment: blog rock is being celebrated, nü metal is back, and Emerald Fennell––perhaps recognizing this vibe shift––s...

Venice Review: Hit Man is a Sexy, Alluring Addition to Richard Linklater’s Corpus

One night in 2016, I was working at a small movie theater in Austin, Texas, when a man leaned over the cash register and shook my hand. “Thanks for tonight,” h...

Venice Review: Gasoline Rainbow is Another Mesmerizing Feat of Hybrid Filmmaking From the Ross Brothers

“The only difference between children and grown-ups is that the grown-ups are unsupervised.” This line, uttered in the second half of Bill Ross IV and Turner R...

Amerikatsi Review: Rear Window Meets Life Is Beautiful in Stubbornly Unfashionable Crowd-Pleaser

If “Rear Window meets Life Is Beautiful” sounds like an all-timer of a cursed elevator pitch, then there’s nothing Michael A. Goorjian’s well-intentioned crowd...

Venice Review: Ava DuVernay’s Origin is a Perceptive Take on the History of Systemic Violence

The second part of this year’s Venice Film Festival shines with at least two firsts: Ava DuVernay is the first African-American female director competing for t...

The Bikeriders Trailer: Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer & Michael Shannon Lead Jeff Nichols’ Gang

After seven long years following the one-two, varied punch of Midnight Special and Loving, director Jeff Nichols is finally back. The Bikeriders––bringing toge...

A Master Returns in First Trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron

Shrouded in a veil of secrecy up until its Japanese release this past July, Hayao Miyazaki's first feature in a decade and potentially the 82-year-old director...

Wayne Wang on His Diverse Filmography, Revisiting Old Work, and the Time Gangsters Visited His Set

We recently had the good fortune to speak with the talented, prolific filmmaker Wayne Wang about his long career, in particular his film Dim Sum: A Little Bit ...

Venice Review: Explanation for Everything is an Ambitious Look at the Absurdity of Manipulative Politicization

Politics are the enemy in Gábor Reisz’s Explanation for Everything, an ambitious, entertaining effort from the Hungarian filmmaker to address the crisis of div...

News

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Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Removal of the Eye Finds Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan Building a Family

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Michael Almereyda’s Nadja Rises from the Grave In Trailer for New Restoration

Reviews

Sundance Review: The Oldest Person in the World is a Neverending, Personal Quest

Sundance Review: American Doctor Shows the Genocide Your Tax Dollars Are Paying For

Sundance Review: One in a Million Tells an Epic Saga of Exile and Assimilation

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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Interviews

“You’re Leaning Into the Ugliness”: Michael Bauman on Shooting One Battle After Another for Paul Thomas Anderson

“How Do I Keep Leonardo DiCaprio Safe?”: Breaking Down the Stunts of One Battle After Another

“I’m Not Seeing America Doing the Best Films”: Rodrigo Teixeira on Supporting Brian De Palma, James Gray, and Contemporary World Cinema

Podcasts

The Best Films of 2025 and Most-Anticipated Films of 2026

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