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Locarno Review: David Krumholtz Rounds Off a Big Year in Deadbeat Comedy Lousy Carter

What a year it's been for David Krumholtz. In 2023, the actor has added a Tony-winning play (Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt) and a box-office sensation (you know ...

Locarno Review: Family Portrait is an Audacious Debut Excavating Subterranean Familial Tensions

Texas, late summer, a family in the dozen: with only a few simple building blocks, artist-filmmaker Lucy Kerr rearranges domesticity into eeriness in her featu...

The Criterion Collection’s November Lineup: Malick, Scorsese, and Bogdanovich on 4K, Jackie Chan, and Claude Chabrol

Let's quickly skirt the sinking-stomach realization of how far into 2023 we're getting––at least this next crop of titles arrive as Barnes and Noble hold anoth...

Maestro Trailer: Bradley Cooper is Leonard Bernstein in Venice-Bound Biopic

Five years after his hit directorial debut A Star Is Born, few fall films are arriving with the illustrious pedigree of Bradley Cooper's sophomore feature Maes...

Michael Cera and Dustin Guy Defa on The Adults, Poker Cinema, and the Joy of Sesame Street

It’s February in Berlin and Michael Cera is dodging bullets. What's it like, one reporter asks, to be a new dad? “It's like a new obsession," the actor explain...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 517 – Afire (with Scout Tafoya)

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Bill Graham, and Robyn Bahr are joined by Scout Tafoya to discuss ...

Gran Turismo Review: Fast Cars and Fatherly Love Make this PlayStation Production Better Than It Has Any Right to Be

Gran Turismo, based on the PlayStation racing simulation games and directed by District 9 helmer Neill Blomkamp, is many things: a sports movie, an underdog st...

Locarno Review: Baan is a Fitfully Lyrical, Often Overwrought Study of 21st-Century Restlessness

The people dotting Leonor Teles’ shorts are all caught in the midst of seismic transformations, drifters who watch their home turfs push them away and change a...

First Trailer for Michel Gondry’s The Book of Solutions Finds a Filmmaker in a Creative Rut

Returning with his first film in nearly a decade, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry debuted The Book of Solutions at Cannes Film...

TIFF 2023 Adds Films by Jean-Luc Godard, Radu Jude, Pedro Costa, Eduardo Williams, Phạm Thiên & More

In one of their festival announcements, Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled some of the most exciting international offerings of the year with Wa...

News

Exclusive Clip and Poster for Ramzi Bashour’s Sundance Premiere Hot Water Introduces Mother-Son Road Comedy

Sinners and One Battle After Another Lead 2026 Oscar Nominations

The Criterion Channel’s February Programming Features Stunts, Yearning, Black History, and the Oslo Trilogy

Trailers

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

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Spins a Feudal Mystery In First Teaser for Kokurojo

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

Reviews

Sundance Review: I Want Your Sex is Gregg Araki’s Plea to the Younger Generation to Chill Out and Have More Sex

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

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Godard and Griffith, Gerry, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie & More

New to Streaming: James Bond, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, The Smashing Machine & More

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

The B-Side Ep. 174 – James Stewart (with Mitchell Beaupre)

The B-Side Ep. 173 – James L. Brooks (with Adam Drosin)

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