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Venice Review: Athena is Romain Gavras’ Brutal, Breathless Magnum Opus

Is reinvention overrated? For at least 45 minutes, Athena (named for the fictional area where the film is based as well as the goddess of wisdom and war) threa...

Venice Review: Master Gardener Closes Out Paul Schrader’s Great Contemporary Trilogy

There is a paradox at the heart of Master Gardener. In their respective worlds—one of abstinence and iconography; the other of money and risk—priests and gambl...

Venice Review: A Couple is a Low-Key, Personal Experiment for Frederick Wiseman

This year’s Venice Film Festival competition has not been short on bloat. Todd Field, Noah Baumbach, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu all turned in sprawling works th...

Venice Review: Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio is a Purposefully Oblique, Mysteriously Murky Religious Drama

Something has happened in Abel Ferrara’s working life that aligns him with Stanley Kubrick’s later career journey. The latter shot all his features from 2001 o...

TÁR Concept Album, Featuring Hildur Guðnadóttir and Cate Blanchett, Will Arrive in October

With Todd Field's first film in sixteen years finally arriving in just about a month, the release is thankfully getting a few more bells and whistles than your...

Venice Review: The Boisterously Beautiful Bardo Finds Iñárritu Navel-Gazing Into the Abyss

Silverio Gama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is, as many artists like to imagine themselves, a disheveled-genius type. Once an independent journalist in his hometown o...

Loving Highsmith Review: Ripley Writer Revealed in Personal Documentary

"My life is a chronicle of unbelievable mistakes." So writes Patricia Highsmith, the acclaimed author of Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, The Talented ...

12 Films to See in September

After perusing our massive, 60-film, two-part fall preview, there shouldn't be too many surprises on our first monthly highlights of the season. While Septembe...

New to Streaming: Funny Pages, Studio Ghibli, James Wong Howe, Fritz Lang, and 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...

NYC Weekend Watch: Working-Class Musicals, Johnny Guitar, Patricia Highsmith & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAM "Working Class Musicals" examines the most lavish expressions from a ground level, f...

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

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

NYC Weekend Watch: “Silent” Movies, Godzilla & 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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